Re: dieselization of the CPR's Vermont line
- From: "bm_1950" <duano40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:04:02 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@...>
wrote:
Walt also commented that he looked at other days and there's at
least one n/b extra each day. I interpret that as being the return
of
the Newport-Wells River local freight which may have been operating
daily each way by then. My April 1953 ETT shows the scheduled
(fourth
class) s/b local freight, train #50, as being daily so I assume its
n/b return as an extra was also daily. BTW the n/b extra on 3Jan52
was
powered by a S-2 so I assume that the use of a switcher on the
local
freight was not all that uncommon.
That northbound extra was the return local from the previous day's
#50. If you look at the spreadsheet I made of the register on the B&M
site, you'll notice the pattern. The local south (#50) shows on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The northbound extra falls on the
three following days. Number 50 shows in the register as arriving
anywhere from 4:30 to after 6:00pm. The extra north leaves almost
always at 7:30am the next day. On page 49 of CP in Color Volume One,
there is a photo taken on May 13,1955 of that day's local parked at
the B&M engine house in Woodsville. S2 #7097 is on the track next to
the building facing B&M BL2 1552 on the same track. The van is parked
over on the power house track. The shadows indicate the photo was
taken late in the afternoon.
My register(and spreadheet) also show an occasional, few days a
month northbound extra. This was simply a caboose hop to balance
the power. The register shows this train as always hauling a
single car (the van). There is a photo in Nimke's volume six that
shows a CP RS2 and van sitting on the north leg of the wye at Wells
River waiting to follow a through freight north. Since it's only
hauling the van, it's very likely this was one of the engine/caboose
moves. The register doesn't show the local heading north without at
least a couple of cars.
Duane Goodman
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