Did the different railroads, other than the Chicago and Northwestern, operate at the Aniwa and Mattoon, Wisconsin locations?
Q: When combining two sections of passenger trains (such as at Green Bay or Monico, WI), one locomotive was always wye’ed into the “trailing” or backward facing position. Why was this move necessary? Why did the C&NW never operate E or F units “elephant style” with both units facing forward? Scott A: The simple answer is that they did not have nose door connections for the cables. Especially after the Cummins HEP auxiliary power was installed, it would have been a lot of cable mess. And the HEP cables would have to have been situated where the plow/pilot was generally located. Positioning of cables is complicated. Joe The original C&NW rebuilt E and F units did have HEP receptacles on both the front and rear. They normally operated back to back so the front of the trailing unit had to have receptacles on the front in order to get power to the coaches. I have seen an elephant style unit hookup. At Christmas time many years ago, No.209 had an E8 facing north trailed by a F7 facing north
