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Re: (erielack) NYCB Train
I'm afraid I can't help you.? When I got into the dispatchers office, I don't believe the NYCB and SLCB were still running.? I posted a little bit on the Marion to Hammond desk a little bit in the summer of 1972 and I don't remember them running nor do I remember crews going through at Huntington. If it happened, it would have been maybe when they first started up.? As a operator I was strictly Dayton Branch and east of Marion so I couldn't tell you anything that went on west of Marion before I started in the dispatching office.
Marion to Decatur seems a little doubtful to me because of the distance plus you would be running on two seniority districts on the N&W by going through Peru.? So to set something like this up you have three seniority districts to worry about balancing miles out involving two different railroads (one EL and two N&W).? Steve can tell you from his own experience and I will second it that on any interdivisional run, it's hard enough keeping the two seniority districts happy on balancing out the miles never mind two different railroads over three seniority districts.? And if you work that labor side out, then you have to get an agreement involving the crew's liability - who's going to take the hit if an N&W person?gets hurt on the EL and vice versa.? I just never heard of a crew operating over a foreign railroad as you describe except in trackage rights, joint track, or making an interchange delivery.? Maybe what you heard was the train was interdivisional run on the N&W because as I said they had to operate through Peru which even today is a crew change point for some runs.??
Keith????
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Subject: Re: (erielack) NYCB Train
In a message dated 6/11/2009 3:09:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mjconnor_rr_@_hotmail.com writes:
SMT
And wasn't the NYCB and SLCB operated via EL-Huntington-NW(Wab)?? I have also seen correspondance that indicates that, at least briefly, there was an joint EL-N&W IDR (Interdivisional Run) using EL and N&W crews a mileage prorate basis to operate between Marion and Decatur IL via Huntington.
MJC
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MJC
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Yes, it was a through train via the N&W (Wabash) at Huntington, Ind.? It frequently had N&W motive power in the form of high-nose SD-45's, high-nose Century-628's and other oddballs.? Some of the Cannonballs were very small; such as one, two or three cars, while others were quite large.
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I don't know about any EL-N&W inter divisional runs but they may have operated.? Asking Keith Robbins if he knows about that item.
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SMT
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