My understanding was that the Northern Cross started to build a line from
Quincy to Camp Point,IL where it left what
would later become the Q, to Clayton,IL where the Wabash would later come from
the north, to Meredosia,IL to
Jacksonville and possibly Springfield,IL.
Before the line made it into Quincy, the Northern Cross went bankrupt (war?)
and someone else bought the line but I
didn't think they used the Northern Cross name. This other company or possibly
a third completed the line from Quincy to
Galesburg.
Sorry I don't have dates. Its been awhile since I researched Quincy railroads.
If someone else knows otherwise, please
reply.
Larry Stoll
harryg@g... wrote:
>
> 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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