FWIW, I recall in my early days of railfanning in the Ottumwa area, the BN used
these small wood buildings for an operator when there was a major maint.
project on one of the mainlines.
I recall in mid-1980 talking for a time with the temp. operator at Batavia, IA
when there was single tracking going on - seem to recall "Y" orders being
involved, though not certain. The op have me a heads-up on Amtrak coming, and
caught a local with GP30's and another train with one of the FW&D GP38-2 units
being delivered that day.
Remembering radio conversations between operator and trains, besides Batavia
this was done at Dudley, Maxon and Halpin - have photographed small structures
at all three back around that time.
Those kinds of maint. activities probably explain a train order from a place
where the main structures had been long since removed.
N. L. Pitsch
Manassas VA
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On Thu, 2/20/14, STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Maxon Interlocking
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 10:04 AM
My copy
is "Remote Control on the Burlington" by W.F. Zane
Railway Age 2/24/34
One of my notebooks
is full of copies of signal articles. Starts in 1908
thru 1960 when ever I find an article it goes there. I
have other notebooks on various subjects.
There may have been times the small house with
the smoke stack in the Barriger Photo was used for a train
order operator. At times we would cross over Agency (east
of Ottumwa) using the CTC at Lawler Tower or use it to
reverse (with DR order)Maxon to Lawler Tower. There just
was not much flexibility with the Iowa Ozark grades between
Ottumwa and Creston
Steve in SC
From: Douglas Harding
<doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday,
February 20, 2014 8:12 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re:
Maxon Interlocking
Steve and Glen, thank you
very much. And yes I would appreciate a copy of page two, as
I only have the first page. My primary interest was the map
showing the M&StL at the time. But someone just asked on
the MSTL list if Barriger CBQ photo #130 was Maxon (which it
appears it is, looking west) and that has prompted new
questions.
And very
interesting the same article with different photos was
published in competitive publications. I have since found
the ebay listing for the page I have, and it did state it
was published in Railway Age, but no date was
indicated.
Doug Hardingwww.iowacentralrr.org
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