Re: dieselization of the CPR's Vermont line
- From: "bm_1950" <duano40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:57:00 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@...>
wrote:
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.
One fact that has always left me curious and adds another twist is my
April 1950 ETT shows a second local, #52. Aside from this timetable
I've never read or heard about this train. It shows #50's arrival
time changing from late afternoon to mid morning. The schedule for
#52 has it arriving early afternoon. I wish we had access to the
register that came after mine (starting Feb, 1950) as it would show
the operating characteristics of 52. Since it doesn't show up in
Walt's Jan. 1952 register it obviously had a short operating life.
Perhaps the extra traffic didn't materialize as planned.
If Walt could provide the average arrival and departure times
for #50 and the extra north, it would show how the running times
were handled after the milk trains and #52 were discontinued.
I agree with your theory about the northbound local hauling the empty
milk cars. Even if 906 was hauling the loaded milk, there still had
to be a way to get the empties back on a daily basis. Since my
register shows very few cars leaving Wells River on the local north,
it would have been easy to add the empties to this train. Of course
as we've talked about in the past, by 1956 the empties were going
north on 901 as per the milk car movement list Tim Gilbert provided
on the B&M list.
Duane Goodman
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