The tunnel at Hannibal was on the Wabash main, west of the Mississippi River
bridge, and just west of the Q diamond. The Q may have used it though. I seem
to recall seeing Q Geeps on the line that ran down from Quincy through
Marblehead and Fall Creek toward East Hannibal when I was a kid, so they would
have had to go through the tunnel getting into Hannibal.
Glen Haug
----- Original Message -----
From: bill_og
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:29 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Tunnel at East Dubuque
Norm & Listers:
There is a book titles something like "America's Rail Pictorial" by
Russ Porter that has a great photo of the #5632 emerging from a
tunnel, I think it was at east Dubuque.
Did the Q or the Wabash have a tunnel at Hannibal?
Thanks,
Bill
--- In BRHSlist@y..., "Norm_Andersen" <Norm_Andersen@m...> wrote:
> 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@y...
> 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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