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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #390

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Alco C630's 5301 to 5306 did not have the Bee Line Service logo. Todd Shoffler.
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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #428

I don't know which engine numbers had the logo "Bee Line Service" but this was a fast freight service offered by the Reading Lines, one three axle diesel and a caboose with up to 15 freight cars, I think it was in the 1960' to mid 70's.

Lee Fritz
My grandfather, C. D. Fritz, retired from the Reading Company.
I graduated from Muhlenberg High in Laureldale PA.
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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #429

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"Bee Line Service" was a service provided to ON-line shippers sending cars to On-line recipients. A crew was called and the train was moved in a minimum amount of time. Pretty sure the power desk would assign what ever power was available and able to handle the required train. I have a "Bee Line Service" advertisment from the era and I believe the photo depicted is a four axle GP-35 (but do not quoate me on that, I haven't looked at it for awhile)They only had about 15 or 16 six axle units that bore the Bee Line Service logo and to have to get one of them in a hurry would have defeated the purpose of the event.
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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #434

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To build upon Rob's comment, BEE LINE service trains used any power available. Also an abbreviated crew (3-crewmen compared to regular 5-man crews) and no 100-mile service restriction, ie. the trains ran straight through divison points. Woodland's Reading Locomotives 2 has a shot of a GP-35 with a string of covered hoppers and a caboose operating as a "BEE LINE" train.

Locos with the BEE LINE SERVICE logo were C-630's 5307-5311, U-30C's 6300-6304 and SD-45's 7600-7604; for a total of 15-units. I suggest that these were the only engines with the logo since they were the only road power purchased from 1967 until late 1973, by which time the BEE LINE experiment was being phased out.
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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #464

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Joannabill is spot on... I have only seen or read about 6 axle units having the logos.
Thanks,
Barry
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Bee Line Service Logo 11 years 2 months ago #480

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I tried to address this issue in response to Rick A's question on the Members' Interchange: www.readingmodeler.com/index.php/forum/m...ee-line-service-logo
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