Not all passenger service was turned over to Amtrak in 1971. Even on Class
One's a number of short-haul operations weren't turned over. Several
long-haul passenger trains weren't turned over the AMTK (DRGW's Denver-Salt
Lake City; ARR's Anchorage-Fairbanks; SOU's Washington DC-New Orleans were
notable exceptions). At the other extreme they didn't bother with the Great
Western Railway's mixed train between Loveland and Longmont CO.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder CO
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From: <harryg@g...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Some key dates needed ASAP
> I am in the process of prerparing a timeline of railroad service to
> Abingdon, Ill for this weekend's Knox County Scenic Drive.
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> I have the following items in the timeline.
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> 1855: Nothern Cross Railroad constructed joining Galesburg with Quincy.
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> 1856: Northern Cross joins with Central Military Tract and Peoria and
> Oquawka Railroad to form Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.
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> ???? C B & Q installs double track between Waterman Tower and Bushnell
> to handle increased coal shipments from Southern Illinois.
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> ???? C B & Q removes second track as coal shipments decline.
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> ???? Last passenger train stops in Abingdon.
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> 1970: C B & Q joins with Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane,
> Portland, and Seattle to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.
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> 1971: Railroads turn all passenger service over to Amtrak.
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> 1995: Burlington Northern merges with Atchison, Topeaka and Santa Fe to
> create Burlington Nothern Santa Fe Railway.
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> 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.
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> 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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