During the early '60's when we'd run a steam excursion to Dubuque one of the
trip highlights was always going through the East Dubuque tunnel and of course
crossing the Mississippi River.
As I recall the train just bearly crept through the tunnel. In addition to the
Q and IC, the Chicago Great Western also used the tunnel and bridge.
On regular passenger trains in the '60's I can never remember getting stuck
around East Dubuque for either CGW or IC traffic. On a few occasions I saw
waiting CGW westbound trains down the line on the eastside but not often.
Norm Andersen
----- Original Message -----
From: Denny Anspach
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:13 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Tunnel at East Dubuque
Jim Singer has been researching for some time, and will be presenting
at the Prototype Modeler's meet at Naperville next week, and at Cocoa
Beach, FL in January an entirely-new program outlining the
multi-railroad operations at East Dubuque, which of course includes
operations through the tunnel.
It should be very good.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, California
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