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Bill
I’ll look today I might have a photo of a gas-electric at Topeka and will add it here. I worked at Lomax in 1974 and never realized the Topeka branch extended south. Don’t tell Norbert or he’ll cancel my ‘Mopac historian card’.
Off topic but related to Topeka; in the 1970-80’s some lumber loads off the Pacific Northwest were waybilled to Topeka. The tariff allowed for one free diversion so the move to Topeka allowed the lumber broker several days additional transit time to sell the lumber as going to Topeka was a tri-weekly local out of Osawatomie. I got involved when the trainmaster or Superintendent called and was complaining that was generally the only business going up the branch so we put in a business rule in TSC to hold the cars at Osawatomie and avoid the round trip to Topeka. Brokers still got the additional time but we saved the unnecessary move.
After merger, the tariff was changed to encourage the brokers to rebill the loads before they reached North Platte. If they failed to do so the diversion was chargeable.
