Steve
The building of the Red Rock Dam on the put the track under water. Due to
the traffic or lack of it the Government would only put in one track to be
shared by the CB&Q and the Wabash. Some trackage was Wabash and other Q
with the dispatching done by each company for a three year period. The
first Track Warrents the NS used were on the Albia Branch. Likewise the
last train orders the BN used on the Chicago Div. were on the Albia Branch.
Depots were often seperate so the men could smoke, chew and spit while the
ladies were kept clean in there own waiting room
sjh
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From: STEPHEN WYLDER <crewswylder@m...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:57 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Albia depot and the "Capital City Limited."
> I'm working on an article about a 24-hour trip I made in 1966, when I was
15: RI No. 9, Iowa City-Des Moines; CB&Q mixed No. 28, Des Moines-Albia; Q
No. 10, Albia-Burlington; RI No. 201, Burlington-West Liberty; and back on
No. 9 W. Lib.-Iowa City.
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> The crew on board No. 28, the "Capital City Limited," told me that some of
the track I was riding on would soon be underwater. Were they right? I
remember the Albia station being red brick, but another source said it was
wooden. The Albia station made an impression on me because it appeared to
be segregated--not by race, but by sex--with the men's waiting room
resembling the "colored" waiting rooms of the South. I suspect this
segregation wasn't enforced, but I wondered whether a foreign anthropologist
visiting the depot might have concluded that America was a matriarchal
society.
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> I recall a sign outside the Fairfield station proclaiming the town the
"Home of Parsons College--the notorious "Flunk-Out U." that later was sold
to the Maharishi.
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> Memory can play tricks after 35 years. I'd appreciate any help from the
group.
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> Steve Wylder
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