by Aji-tater
They have been "planning" on running north from Geneva for about 10 years.
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Aji-tater wrote:They have been "planning" on running north from Geneva for about 10 years.Yeah, kind of what I was thinking, but maybe....
CPSmith wrote:Things were a little different in 1975:Excellent shots!!
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CPSmith wrote:Things were a little different in 1975:Who was the LV delivering Kaolin (?) to in that first pic with SOU 26961? I actually found a second pic of the same car at Rochester Jct. so it was a regular thing.
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lvrr325 wrote: Who was the LV delivering Kaolin (?) to in that first pic with SOU 26961? I actually found a second pic of the same car at Rochester Jct. so it was a regular thing.My guess would be the Joslyn (sp?) insulator plant at Lima. Altho one would expect a Lima car to move in a road train to Manchester and then go west, and not be in a local at Geneva.
lvrr325 wrote:Without turning this into an LV thread, be interesting to research how that was routed. Short of going through stacks of old waybills I don't know what to look for, though, I have yet to see where the LV used any lists for trains showing cars by reporting marks and number (Train Data Sheet, in Conrail parlance)...I don't know how LV did things, but generally speaking things back then were almost the opposite of today. The conductor would hand-write a list of his train and turn it in to the clerks on arrival at the terminal. On a through train the conductor was usually handed a stack of waybills, but he would write up a list while riding along and present it at the yard. Back then, the waybill - the exact piece of paper that was prepared when a car started out - was carried along on each train until it arrived at the final destination terminal.