Re: Lydonville Sub operations continued...correction
- From: "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:32:31 -0000
"jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@...> wrote:
The Hood car was daily. In fact the B&C's Sunday train was very
often operated solely for the milk. In fact one can see the B&C
return trip to Montpelier leaving Wells River in the same sequence
of published photos with the empty Hood car on the headpin. I
believe that empty had been returned to Woodsville hours earlier on
JD-1, the B&M's WRJ-Berlin freight.
My error...JD-1 didn't operate on Sundays. I knew that but had
forgotten (thanks to Duane Goodman for pointing out my error off
line).
On Sundays the empty Hood car for the B&C was brought up to
Woodsville from WRJ by B&M #6051, the Sunday-only WRJ-Lancaster turn
whose main purpose for existence was to move both milk empties and
loads for trains of both the B&M and MEC that didn't operate on
Sundays. An interesting aspect of 6051 and its return counterpart
6056 was that it drew a CPR E-8 theoretically 50% of the time, using
the road power from the "Red Wing" that would otherwise would have a
long, wasteful layover during the day at WRJ. And I think it was
Duane Goodman again who made this point in recent months (on the B&M
forum was it?).
FWIW, on weekdays (which was Monday to Saturday in that era) it was
the B&M's weekday-only WRJ-Berlin turn, 4301/4308, that drew
the "Red Wing" road power usually. What's interesting is that
although photos of a CPR E-8 on the Sunday-only Lancaster trains are
not uncommon photos of a CPR unit on the weekday Berlin trains are
unknown to me. Perhaps this is the oft-stated opinion that most
railfans did their photographing on their day off which would be
Sunday for most.
JSH
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