Bob
I was going to comment about Arenzville hill. I'm glad
you mentioned it. Yes, they doubled and tripled the
hill, which is just a shade under 1.5%, with the
"jenny trains". Ordinarily, with coal trains, it
wasn't a problem, because it was "with the loads".
After the "cowboy coal" trains came alomg, there was a
pusher there. Sometimes, the yard engine, from
Beardstown acted as a pusher. Today, with distributed
power, the pusher is gone.
John
--- Bob Weber <eng95@a...> wrote:
> I worked as a relief operator at Concord, Il a lot
> in the 1950's and
> remember handling some ore trains southbound out of
> Beardstown, Il. As I
> remember, the ore was always contained in rust
> colored ore cars that were
> smaller than a coal hopper. The loaded cars were
> very heavy and an ore
> train had to be split up into 2 or 3 sections to get
> up the Arenzville, Il
> hill. Seems like that hill was a 1.5% to 2%, if
> that's possible. I believe
> they used to keep a pusher engine down by Arenzville
> to help trains up that
> hill but that was before my time. John Mitchell can
> probably comment much
> more accurately on this than I.
>
> Bob Weber
>
> From: "Doug Harding" <dharding@c...>
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Iron ore trains on the CB&Q
>
>
> > Don't know anything about the Ore Trains through
> East Dubuque. But I
> > have heard there was a Granite City bound ore
> train in the 40/50's that
> > came out of Minn on the CGW to Marshalltown, Iowa
> where it was handed
> > over to the M&StL who took it to, I believe,
> Monmouth, Illinois where I
> > understand the CB&Q took it to Granite City. The
> ore was handled in old
> > two bay coal hoppers. Anyone know more about this
> operation?
> >
> > Doug Harding
> > Iowa Central Railroad
> > www.cal-net.net/~dharding/
> <http://www.cal-net.net/~dharding/>
>
>
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