Anyone happen to know what other railroads, if any, had trackage rights on the CB&Q racetrack in and around the Chicago area during the 60s. Specifically, during the last two years before the Q merged into BN.
Does the Joint UP and 'Q' trains count? Maybe not... If I had some Q books, this would be an easy one..
According to Michael Spoor's book, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy In Color Volume 2 The CB&Q were early leaders in run through trains. One could find Great Northern F units and UP Geep 9's running through Cicero. By the mid to late 1960's five more RR's would join in run through operations in and around Chicago. They included; Erie Lackawana, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Rio Grande and Southern. The GN, NYC and EL used the line between Chicago and St. Paul extensivley in the later part of the 1960's before the merger. This line is part of the C&I which I railfan on almost a monthly basis.
D&RGW too? I'll have to dig some mnore on that one. I could have a joint 'Q' train now... Then again, the Grande disliked foreign power that didn't have water spray mods on the radiators--the unmodified units tended to overheat in tunnel territory. I do know that D&RGW avoided CO sales tax by having their units set up on foreign rails (sometimes at Q's Hobson yard in Lincoln NE), and ran them as online power to Denver. The Grande also shipped trade-in and wrecked units via the Q to LaGrange to EMD.
Thanks BNSF7173 for the information! I just happen to prototype the NYC just prior to the Penn Central merger from the Elkhart yards in Indiana into Chicago and then the CB&Q from Chicago out to the Eola yards in the Chicagoland 'burbs. Cool to know that if I mix some of my Penn and NYC units on the racetrack, it would not be out of place!
There is a really nice picture of a CB&Q locomotive with a few NYC locomotives in the consist going through Chana IL on the C&I. Neat to think that the tracks by me had visitors such as the NYC!
