Jeff,
As I recall it there was a coal tipple right along the
Canton-Lewisville line at Dunfermline.
The wye and industry track is just North of Dunfermline.
Coal mine was Union Electric Coal, now abandonded.
Scrap yard in the mine shop area was called Hitchcock
Iron & Metal. Scrapped some BN locomotives and hundreds
of freight cars there in the early 80's.
Central Illinois Light plant at Duck Creek is on same line.
They have a 110ton GE, bought new. Got a photo of it posted
somewhere. Get some Southern Illinois or Indiana coal loaded
on CSXT or NS and in the past have gotten Utah, Colorado, &
Wyoming coal. BNSF comes in from the Vermont end, usually
with the loading road's power.
BTW, the Elmwood to Buda line was cut back about 10 miles
South of Buda with the only access from the Elmwood end.
There was some thought in BN Management that the traffic
interchanged with the RI at Galva could be turned the other
way. A couple of miles of heavy ribbon rail were laid on
the North end of the stubbed branch. Only logic to this was
if the mine people thought about connecting to the East they
could go over there and see good rail. Nothing ever came
of it.
The VLBG
----- Original Message -----
From: "kujawa's" <ark@b...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 May, 2002 21:38
Subject: [BRHSlist] Yates City-Canton-Lewiston
> Hi Jeff:
>
> Depots still stand at Yates City, along with caboose
> Canton, along with engine,
> Lewistown,a museum (Narrow Gauge) with caboose
> Lewistown (ex Q)
>
> Lewistown was also a base to some of the strip mines on branches to Cuba,
> Fairview, and Dunfirmline. A branch to the Illinois river left just north
of
> Lewistown to Liverpool. Also the Midland Electric coal company had a line
> from their mine and the Q at Dunfirmline to the Illinois River also near
> Liverpool. The Central Illinois Light Co. CILCO had a branch from
Lewistown
> east a couple miles to their plant. Old topo maps and aerial photos are
> available at: www.terrasever.com
>
> Please keep us updated on you book. Think about the Spoon River Drive in
> the Fall. Quite a few railroaders are found at the depots. Another depot
> is in the park.(away from the railroad) in Avon. Restored and a museum.
>
> Yates City was a hub for crews also. Line up to Buda through Elmwood to
the
> coal mines ran till the 80's. Q depot in Wyoming is now a museum.
>
> Roger Kujawa - Morton, Il. ark@b...
>
> President - Atlantic & Great Western Railway
>
> See the AGW on line at :
>
> http://www.geocities.com/agw_railway/
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:02:31 -0500
> > From: "Jeff Crump" <jrcrump@c...>
> > Subject: Yates City-Canton-Lewiston
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As part of the continuing research for my HO model "Canton and Spoon
River
> > RR" (focused on the operations at the International Harvester works in
> > Canton, IL) next week I will making at trip to Illinois to photograph
and
> > otherwise document the line that ran from Yates City through Canton and
> down
> > to Lewiston, IL.
> >
> > Any suggestions on places to check out or other info. would be greatly
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff Crump
> >
> >
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