Saw this on the CGW list, thought you might be interested.
Roger Kujawa - Morton, Il.
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 06:46:08 -0600
From: LaVerne Andreessen <lwandreessen@k...>
Subject: Re: D&D bridge & CB&Q movements
wales23@a... wrote:
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> The is no mention of the CB&Q on the two sheets, they probably had their
> own sheet(?), since they still would have be operating over the D&D bridge
> into Dubuque on a regular basis from the Illinois side during that time.
The
> BN still served Dubuque up until the mid-1980's by way of the bridge. A
> friend of mine got them running across it (with photos to prove it) around
> 1985.
Their EMD switch engine made at least one trip per day to East
Dubuque, and usually two. One in the morning, and another in late
afternoon. They had a wooden waycar with them. Its construction
style reminded me of the CNW cupola waycars.
The Q came over to East Dubuque engine leading, headed through the
tunnel and pulled down to clear the signals in front of East
Cabin. Depending on which track they wished to work north of the
diamonds, they would shove north on either the n/b or s/b Q
tracks. North of the diamond, the Q had a center siding, the
south mainline switches to the center siding were power switches
controlled by the East Cabin operator. The Q "stub" usually did
his work in the storage tracks adjacent to the two Q main lines.
Sometimes they crossed from one mainline to the other via ducking
in the south end of the center siding and out again on the other
mainline so as to gain access to the other storage track. When
finished, they would trundle down to East Cabin again, and perform
a backup move to Dubuque with the caboose "leading" the charge
and the EMD switcher gently shoving on the rear of the cut.
On at least one occasion Q 82 stopped around 7:30 p.m., and had to
go over to Dubuque for carloads of bananas. They returned them to
East Dubuque, and positioned them for the 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. n/b
Q to pick up in East Dubuque. At that time, the Q did not allow
six axle engines across the bridge - e.g. SD24's among them. The
night they went across they had an SD24 in the consist and left it
in East Dubuque. Normally, the ICRR set out the bananas in East
Dubuque for pickup by the Q.
ca. 1962-1965.
LWA
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:49:25 EST
> From: WPDiven@a...
> Subject: Re: SD-24s
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> In a message dated 3/5/2001 7:44:12 PM, rkeil6721@h... writes:
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> << Where and on what type of trains were the Q's SD-24s used?
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> Thanks
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> Rick Keil
> Omaha, NE >>
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> Greetings all:
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> They were leading hotshot freights on the C&I ca. 1964. I have one photo
of
> the high-nose model westbound at Oregon, Ill., presumably on No. 97, the
> daily St. Paul Merchandise.
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> Bill
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