--- In BRHSlist@y..., "Dave_Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@m...> wrote:
> Most traffic was rerouted over the Santa Fe from Galesburg to Ft.
Madison
> and then up the K Line to Burlington.
>
> Those more knowledgeable than I, please correct me if I'm wrong,
but I've
> been told that westbound passenger trains were wyed at Galesburg
and pulled
> to Ft. Madison with SF power, so that the Q power would be headed
the right
> direction to head up the K Line. The eastbounds were pulled by
Santa Fe
> power between Ft. Madison and Galesburg, then wyed to get the Q
power going
> the right direction.
>
> Dave Lotz (who also spent many hours shoveling sand into sandbags
with my
> scout troop)
> St. Louis
>
if i remember correctly at first the burlington (or a diety) managed
to keep the illinois side at burlington of the river open, then it
went to one main, don't recall which one. f d tingley an east ottumwa
brakeman held one of the switch tender jobs (worked 8 hr shifts if i
remember) on the east side of the river just past the end of the
bridge, was a crossover there and of course a phone box. talked to
him after this and he said sure was creepy at night there with only
your lantern (he carried a conger lantern, none q issue) and all the
critters trying to stay alive up on the fill with you. don't recall
how long this lasted before it all went out some where over there.
men said river was 5 mile wide there. could not of been too much
traffic as tingley was fairly deep in the pool and this is the job he
could hold, 11pm or midnight switch tender on the levee. drove down
and looked at it once and it went as far as you could see. don't
remember if it went all the way to happyrock (gladstone)as don't
remember how far up the hill it is out of the mississippi river
bottom.
at sometime it washed out, remember older engineman whos regular
passenger pool turn 17-30, and 1-10 was working stub 11/12 with
fairly old in seniority engineer set back as fireman, so dont think
17 DZ or 1 CZ or much of anything was going thru ottumwa division.
was a few trains as everything came in from the west, des moines,
ottumwa and east ottumwa div traffic, no thru east traffic. stub
11/12 ran omaha to bn and turned. 2 motors and a small train. was
clerking then and it slowed down the first half of april around the
9th, so possibly when it washed out, only had a 6 day half the 2nd
half of april. eventually this got back to normal and maybe this is
when traffic was routed on santa fe or someway, this i don't recall.
this is the event that resulted in the famous photo of burlinton
steam being used to pull a freight cause water was more than 2 inches
over the rail and the chinese red things, 500's and 900's, couldn't
be used
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