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(erielack) Re: Speed Restrictions

Steve, it looks like the ghost of Conrail slipped into your post mentioning
TV99, I think you meant NY99 (interestingly, there was a TV99, a UPS train
operating Worcester-Chicago on Tues Wed Thurs). The basic system TT speed
limit of 40 mph/50 mph for hotshots remained in effect until the end of EL,
although deteriorating track conditions had eventually whittled down the
excepted list to the primary TOFC runs. My copy of the 2/24/74 ETT has C E
Zuver's name on the cover (I can't find him on the EL list of officials,
although Steve, you probably knew him). SFE-99/SFE-100 are written in beside
GO W-404 dated 7/8/74, and crossed off along with all other manifest trains
by GO W-407 of 11/27/74. PB-99/PB-100 remain on the nifty fifty list,
although it must have been shortly after that these trains were combined
with TC-99/TC-100 and demoted to 40 mph. The 45 mph TT limit on specified
curves applied to all trains including the 50 mph schedules. The reason you
don't see Illinois trackage included is that it was C&WI territory, not EL
(ie the Marion division ended at State Line). Finally, until mid-1974, all
EB trains out of Chicago originated at 51st St. That's when the EB
"run-throughs" began operating. Remaining trains originating 51st St were
NY-100, 2/NY-100, PB-100, NE-74 and one or two drag trains as required,
including HF-98 and CO-78.

Paul B

 

Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:29:06 -0400 (EDT)

From: Smtimko_@_aol.com

Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: Speed Restrictions

 

I am on the road this week and away from my collection.  EL timetables were
not as user friendly as the timetables of today.  Somewhere in that  EMP TT
there should be a Special Instruction that would read something  like:  

"Trains TV99, PB99, CX99, adv CX99, NY100, 2NY100, NE98, etc., etc.,  etc.,
are permitted to operate at 50 MPH unless otherwise restricted."

I believe I have seen it in EMP TT #4.  It could also be carried in a paper
Special Order or Special Instruction not part of the timetable, but
referencing the timetable.

SMT



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