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Re: 1965 flood @ Burlington was CB&Q units in Milwaukee

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Subject: Re: 1965 flood @ Burlington was CB&Q units in Milwaukee
From: liljo@o...
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:38:33 -0000
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--- 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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