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Re: (erielack) Last train on West End (2)

BRC-98/99 were direct runs to and from Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing 
Yard. By late '75-76, most  Chicago carload interchange, particulrly WB, 
bypassed 51 St entirely and went directly to and from connections' yards. 
Previously (1973), Belt interchange was preblocked on CO-97 out of Marion 
(along with L&N-Wilders, EJ&E, CSL and CWI blocks) which went to 51St, from 
where the Belt group was handled by transfer run. It returned to 51St with 
the eastbound Belt transfer, which was then classified for eastern 
destinations on EL. With the new arrangement, begun I believe in 1975, 
BRC-98/99 went directly to/from Clearing via 80th St. I'm sure it handled 
other blocks, but for example the CSL block would have been set off at S 
Deering. During the 1970's, the Belt handled EL's SOO interchange; SOO Line 
was the one major Chicago road with which EL did not directly interchange.

I presume the CR version of the BRC symbols handled Belt blocks, but 
otherwise the classification bore little resemblance to EL's trains.

Paul B

From: "Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>
Subject: Re: (erielack) Last train on West End (2)

What were the BRC-98/99 trains?  The reason I ask is because CR was running
a BRC-XX symbol train to/from Creston east to (?), whcih p/u & s/o of coal
hoppers w/the N&W in the late '70's which I saw quite frequently from
'76-'77 while going to college at Kent, OH.

Always had some pretty wild lashups of 3-4 bigger Alco's for power (C628's &
C630's) from RDG, PC & LV on those trains...


 


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