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Also check "Narrow Gauge to No Man's Land" as a lot of surplus 60 cm
equiptment was sold or given to the states for road construction. Due to no
ready mix trucks and very light dump trucks narrow gauge railroads were used
to move the material over light trestles for bridges and along the sides of
roads where paving was being laid. Route 66 in Illinois was an early narrow
gauge paving job. The Interurban and Steam Roads hauled the materal to a
siding where it was transloaded into the narrow gauge. Engineering News
Record has a lot of neat construction articles of the late teens and up
until WWII.
SJH
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Decker <mdecker@g...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Wood Bros., was Oregon Wye
> Bill and Folks:
>
> I have a Koppel Industrial Car and Equipment Company Catalog No.1, which
> shows their "Hauling Outfit for Building Concrete Roads", using Koppel's
> "Direct Charging System". The railway was a 24" gauge portable line which
> fed an old-fashioned cement mixer. Each car carried two material
> containers, and the mixer had a boom which picked one container at a time
> off of the car frame, dumped it into the mixer, and then replaced it. The
> drawings illustrating the procedure are dated 2-08-13. There are four
> photographs showing the equipment in use building "General Coleman Du
Pont's
> Memorial to the State of Delaware", some time prior to 1919. The
industrial
> railway manufacturers were making a little profit building the mechanism
of
> their demise :>)
>
> Mike Decker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:57:06 EDT
> > From: WPDiven@a...
> > Subject: Wood Bros., was Oregon Wye
> >
> >
> > Jerry and list:
> >
> > I wonder if your elderly friend is referring to the temporary,
> narrow-gauge
> > line set up when Illinois Highway 2 was being paved around Oregon back
in
> the
> > latter 1920s or the '30s. My mother remembers the little industrial
line
> > running north on Sixth St. past her house for the work north of town.
If
> > don't know if a similar line ran south of Oregon during construction,
but
> if
> > it did, it would have passed the site occupied later by Wood Bros. You
> might
> > ask your friend about that.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill
>
>
>
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