Erik Coleman wrote:
> How big were the trains this Thanksgiving? I remember riding 391 back to
> school in 1988-- it was a 14 car behemoth (mix of Amfleet and Heritage)
> pulled by two F40PH's. Back when there were two main tracks at Champaign,
> they cut the last 5 empty cars off 391 (all Champaign riders had
detrained)
> and highballed south. An SW14 was spotted in a small runaround track
south
> of the depot (Terry, wasn't it called "23's track"?), tacked onto the cut,
> and pulled south of Green St. When 392 arrived, the switcher shoved
through
> the hand-throw crossovers and coupled the cars onto 392 for the deadhead
> trip back to Chicago. Quite a nifty operation for 1988, though it did
delay
> both trains by many minutes.
I thought that "23's track" was gone by that time and that No. 3 and 4
tracks were still in place but not in service.
I thought the Champaign cars off 391 were snagged by a yard switcher that
came down behind 391, coupled onto the cars, and then pulled them north to
the hand-throw crossover just north of the interlocking to run around them
and be on the south end so they could be added to 392 when he arrived.
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