Re: [CBQ] Old St. Francis Branch

["Bryan Howell via Groups.Io" <tubaman21=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

The full caption, along with the photo, will be appearing in the next Zephyr.

Bryan J. Howell

BRHS VP Publications

On Friday, February 1, 2019, 8:49:21 AM CST, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> wrote:

Kirby:

I wrote a considerably longer caption than appears with the photo from Jim Ehernberger's collection that is the December photo in the 2019 BRHS calendar and shows passenger local No. 189 pulling up at the Atwood, Kan., depot about 1915.  The caption was way too long for the space available and had to be cut substantially.  The portion that was cut, among other things, noted that the Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (owned by OmniTRAX) had been operating the branch since the 1980s but discontinued operations in 2015 and in 2017 applied to abandon the 130-mile branch, and it no longer appears on NKC's system map.

Hol

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Kirby Lambert <kirby@prospectortech.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:55 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: [CBQ] Old St. Francis Branch

 

I can't remember where I heard this; but it was to the effect that the Shortline that was operating on the old CB&Q St Francis Branch had ceased operations on the line and was going to pull up the tracks.

Do any of you have any information on this?

Thanks
Kirby

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