Re: milk extra
- From: "bm_1950" <duano40@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:26:28 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@...>
wrote:
Or maybe disruptions that
day required an extra (but the B&M equipment suggests otherwise).
Perhaps we'll never know for sure. A great pair of photos
nonetheless.
John and I came to the conclusion that CP milk trains 769/770 were
discontinued in 1951 based on employee timetables from 1950 and 1953.
This also coincided with when the B&M quit running their milk trains
which connected with the CP at Wooodsville.
Any train that operated north of Wells River was a CP train even if
operating with B&M equipment. Once it passed Wells River, it assumed
a B&M number or designation. When the CP diesilized the Vermont line
in 1949, they were running the following freights: three through
freights each way between Newport and White River Junction; one milk
train each way between Newport and Woodsville; one local freight from
Newport to Woodsville and returning the next day.
I have the CP train register from Wells River covering the 10/31/49
through 1/31/50 time frame. Each train's motive power is listed. On
any given day B&M power was used on at least two and sometimes three
of the nine trains listed above.
Passenger power for the two Redwings and two Alouettes was split
evenly between the two roads. If one road ran a train northbound, the
other would run it's counterpart southbound and vice versa the next
day.
The operations of this area in the past can make for interesting
research and modeling.
Duane Goodman
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