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TAG Train Order

 
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My desk is like the La Brea tar pits, every once in a while something will float back to the surface I had forgot about. I actually don't remember acquiring this particular TAG train order. It was in a manila folder with about a half dozen other train orders from Midwestern railroads. At any rate, I have other TAG and CofG train orders that I do indeed remember obtaining. But for the life of me I don't remember where I got this one.

Warren
 

Warren, Thanks for sharing this and the other finds.? The day before this train order was issued I celebrated my 10th birthday.? I assume the Dickey referred to site of the old clay pipe works just inside the Georgia border.? At that time there would have been no grade crossings for a good distance so this would have been a good place to park a freight train.? Any speculation as to why such an order went out?

Arnold Eaves

On 08/27/2022 12:01 PM Warren Stephens <wdstephens@...> wrote:


My desk is like the La Brea tar pits, every once in a while something will float back to the surface I had forgot about. I actually don't remember acquiring this particular TAG train order. It was in a manila folder with about a half dozen other train orders from Midwestern railroads. At any rate, I have other TAG and CofG train orders that I do indeed remember obtaining. But for the life of me I don't remember where I got this one.

Warren

 

Hey Arnold, I note a few certainties here. This order is #1 of the day, issued just after midnight. It is addressed to train #51 and "extras". Train 51 was the daily southbound. If punctual, #51 departed Alton Park at 10am or roughly 10 hours after this order was issued? If 52 was punctual, it arrived from Gadsden at Alton Park at around 5am or five hours after this order was issued. As 52 was not addressed in this order, I have to wonder if it was allowed to come north between midnight and 5am or was there an order addressed to it that we don't know about? It has to be intense track work somewhere just south of Dickey and this order was intended to protect that work. I can think of no other reason. In the diesel era, there were few true extras. An extra was generally the result of a scheduled train having to be annulled. My guess is that this was a caveat tossed in in case 51 was held up so long it was annulled.? ?

Warren
On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 05:33:36 PM EDT, arnoldeaves <aseaves@...> wrote:


Warren, Thanks for sharing this and the other finds.? The day before this train order was issued I celebrated my 10th birthday.? I assume the Dickey referred to site of the old clay pipe works just inside the Georgia border.? At that time there would have been no grade crossings for a good distance so this would have been a good place to park a freight train.? Any speculation as to why such an order went out?

Arnold Eaves

On 08/27/2022 12:01 PM Warren Stephens <wdstephens@...> wrote:


My desk is like the La Brea tar pits, every once in a while something will float back to the surface I had forgot about. I actually don't remember acquiring this particular TAG train order. It was in a manila folder with about a half dozen other train orders from Midwestern railroads. At any rate, I have other TAG and CofG train orders that I do indeed remember obtaining. But for the life of me I don't remember where I got this one.

Warren

 

I thought it would be something of that sort. Thank you for the Think Time.

On 08/27/2022 7:26 PM Warren Stephens <wdstephens@...> wrote:



Hey Arnold, I note a few certainties here. This order is #1 of the day, issued just after midnight. It is addressed to train #51 and "extras". Train 51 was the daily southbound. If punctual, #51 departed Alton Park at 10am or roughly 10 hours after this order was issued? If 52 was punctual, it arrived from Gadsden at Alton Park at around 5am or five hours after this order was issued. As 52 was not addressed in this order, I have to wonder if it was allowed to come north between midnight and 5am or was there an order addressed to it that we don't know about? It has to be intense track work somewhere just south of Dickey and this order was intended to protect that work. I can think of no other reason. In the diesel era, there were few true extras. An extra was generally the result of a scheduled train having to be annulled. My guess is that this was a caveat tossed in in case 51 was held up so long it was annulled.? ?

Warren
On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 05:33:36 PM EDT, arnoldeaves <aseaves@...> wrote:


Warren, Thanks for sharing this and the other finds.? The day before this train order was issued I celebrated my 10th birthday.? I assume the Dickey referred to site of the old clay pipe works just inside the Georgia border.? At that time there would have been no grade crossings for a good distance so this would have been a good place to park a freight train.? Any speculation as to why such an order went out?

Arnold Eaves
On 08/27/2022 12:01 PM Warren Stephens <wdstephens@...> wrote:


My desk is like the La Brea tar pits, every once in a while something will float back to the surface I had forgot about. I actually don't remember acquiring this particular TAG train order. It was in a manila folder with about a half dozen other train orders from Midwestern railroads. At any rate, I have other TAG and CofG train orders that I do indeed remember obtaining. But for the life of me I don't remember where I got this one.

Warren

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