Re: dieselization of the CPR's Vermont line
- From: "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:23:19 -0000
"bm_1950" <duano40@...> wrote:
That northbound extra was the return local from the previous day's
#50...The local south (#50) shows on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The northbound extra falls on the three following days.
But it would appear from Walt's description of his register that
by 1952 the s/b scheduled local and its n/b extra return were each
operating daily if Walt found at least one n/b extra per day, not
every other day as in your '49-'50 register, Duane. Certainly the s/b
local was scheduled daily per my April '53 ETT although there
certainly could have been days when it was annulled account lack of
traffic.
My thinking is that they perhaps made the local freight a daily move
in each direction when then dropped the milk. When you look at your
spreadsheet numbers of cars hauled on the milk (#769/770) in 1949-1950
it's clear that train was hauling a LOT more than milk. So they may
have needed a daily way freight once the milk came off.
JSH
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