Re: [CBQ] EPB on CB&Q LaCrosse Div!

[kerhart@frontier.com]

Any idea what time the trains left Chicago and the Twin Cities and are due to 
arrive at their final destinations.  I live near Oregon, IL and would like to 
see them go past.  Any approximate time through Oregon, IL?  Thank you.

Keith Erhart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Edgar" <gvlc6@hotmail.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:03:05 AM
Subject: [CBQ] EPB on CB&Q LaCrosse Div!






Tks to Jim Young for this info; the EPB travling from Chi to Mpls/StP as God 
intended it! ('today' is today - Dec 4) 

CHICAGO – Amtrak's Empire Builder will take to its original route between the 
Twin Cities and Chicago today and several times in December. Union Pacific is 
replacing its crossing with Canadian Pacific's former Milwaukee Road main line 
at Watertown, Wis., necessitating the detours. 

Both Nos. 7 and 8 will detour today between Chicago and St. Paul via BNSF 
Railway's former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy main line, with buses serving 
intermediate points. The Burlington was the original route of Great Northern's 
Empire Builder, and was used from the time the train was inaugurated in 1929 
until the advent of Amtrak on May 1, 1971 when it switched to the Milwaukee 
Road route between Chicago and the Twin Cities. 

Train No. 8 will detour again over the ex-CB&Q on December 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 
and 20. Train No. 7 will not detour on those days. 





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