Hey you New Haven guys--didn't NH buy a group of FB-2 units to augment their
fleet-- just B units, no A's?
Yes, Rock Island would balance power, didn't seem that big a deal at the
time. If we wanted something unusual, we had to ask for and get 3 BL-2s, an
E-8, and an E-7 on #9, the overnight mail out of Chicago into Des Moines at
5AM; The BL-2s were the second step of the gathering--about Friday midnight,
Short Line would receive E's, F's, DL-109's; boilered GP-7s, anything
available, along with up to 50 heavyweight coaches, diners and Pullmans.
At 9AM Saturday, they would then roll THREE 18-car heavyweight trains on
10-minute headways, picking up UofI football fans at 4th & Vine, Newton,
Grinnell, Brooklyn, Victor, Marengo, and dump them all off at Stadium.
B-units? Well how about a red/black F-7B between a pair of maroon BL-2s
leading one of those strings of 18 cars up the EB ruling grade into Newton.
They worked for it.
Now if you want to talk balancing power, try this: In the Chicago-area
commuter pool: CB&Q would put a consist in this order on a Saturday
afternoon: Bi-level Budd cab car; several Budd Bi-level cars; 3 or 4 E-8s,
then a group of the older non-streamlined commuter coaches and power car. If
you weren't ready, you thought you had a string of runaways on your hands.
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