[CBQ] Re: [PeoriaRails] Historical Operations Department

["Russ Strodtz" <normansen@groundcontrol.us>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Jordan" <david_jordan1974@comcast.net>
To: <PeoriaRails@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 14 May, 2009 22:07
Subject: [PeoriaRails] Historical Operations Department


> List,
> 
> This one goes way back to...1885!
> 
> I didn't know about this until tonight when I discovered it while looking
> for something else:
> 
> PEORIA DAILY TRANSCRIPT - August 1, 1885, page 6.
> 
> "The work on the new track for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
> east of Oak Hill is being pushed rapidly as possible this hot weather. The
> grading is to be finished by the middle of September. This track leaves the
> present line at the east end of Oak Hill yard, bearing to the north and
> meets the track which still remains in the old gravel pit. By the change
> four large bridges are saved, which is a great item in expenses as well as
> safety."
> 
> (end of story)
> 
> Looking at aerial photos, N. Thousand Dollar Road to the east and also just
> west of the Rt. 8 bridge in Oak Hill look like points where a new alignment
> has replaced the original built in 1856-57. I don't know where an old gravel
> pit may have been, though I can believe one was once in that area. 
> 
> DPJ
> 


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