I am in the process of prerparing a timeline of railroad service to
Abingdon, Ill for this weekend's Knox County Scenic Drive.
I have the following items in the timeline.
1855: Nothern Cross Railroad constructed joining Galesburg with Quincy.
1856: Northern Cross joins with Central Military Tract and Peoria and
Oquawka Railroad to form Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
???? C B & Q installs double track between Waterman Tower and Bushnell
to handle increased coal shipments from Southern Illinois.
???? C B & Q removes second track as coal shipments decline.
???? Last passenger train stops in Abingdon.
1970: C B & Q joins with Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane,
Portland, and Seattle to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.
1971: Railroads turn all passenger service over to Amtrak.
1995: Burlington Northern merges with Atchison, Topeaka and Santa Fe to
create Burlington Nothern Santa Fe Railway.
Any one able to fill in the blanks or have any additions or correctons
please let me know by Thursday evening as I must prepare the posters on
Friday for this weekends Show.
If any of you are doing the drive stop in and say hello at the Festival
Grounds on the north edge of Abingdon. I will be there with several N
scale models of CB & Q, M & St L, and Amtrak models.
TIA.
Harry M Grossman
Director, Carl Sandburg College
Galesburg Railroad Days Train Show
harryg@g...
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