Re: Did it ever happen
- From: "Dennis Storzek" <destorzek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:57:10 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "W. A. (Dale) Wilson" <dale.wilson@...> wrote:
On 12-Apr-09, at 11:30 PM, soomodels wrote:
Hi group
Did CPR ever rerouted their east-west trains through Northern
Michigan on Soo Line tracks due to problems on the Canadian
Apparently this did happen during World War II due to very high
traffic levels, but details have always been scarce and it is possible
DSS&A lines might have been used as much as SOO trackage. If anyone
has details of this, I would certainly be interested in hearing about
it.
Dale Wilson <dale.wilson@...>
Nickel Belt Rails, Box 483, Station "B", Sudbury, ON, P3E 4P6
I think we have a problem with semantics here. I wouldn't doubt that CP
diverted TRAFFIC to the Soo at some point during WWII, but that's not the same
as "running trains." Running trains implies run through crews, or at least run
through power, which is, I think, what Pierre is looking for. The full length
of a detour south of Lake Superior would have been from Sault Ste. Marie
(leaving the CP mainline around Sudbury) to Noyes MN / Emerson MB, across FIVE
crew districts and two motive power districts on the Soo. I can't say it never
happened, but I've never heard of it, or seen any photo that would support the
fact that it happened.
The Soo wasn't particularly hard pressed for power during WWII; the purchase of
four 4-8-4 locomotives in 1938 had freed up at least that many Mikes or
Mountains, and the road was able to buy and rebuild twelve additional 2-8-2s in
1941, on the eve of the US entry into the war.
I too would be interested in seeing any evidence of CP steam power on either
the Soo or South Shore.
Dennis
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