Hello everyone,
The CMSTP was the first Railroad to build through the Crawford Tower area
in the 1860's, so when the CB&N built though many years later it was at the
Milwaukee's bidding. When the Milw sold the line in the 1980's to the
state of Wisconsin, the BN purchased the section from the east side of the
diamond down to the Fertilizer plant, which was still shipping at that
time. From the fertilizer plant about one mile to Prairie Sand & Gravel is
owned by the state and controlled by the transit commission.
Later when the transit commission's operator (WICT) had to cross the BN
mainline at Crawford it was at the bidding of the BN, and thus the split
point derails.
I do have a historic photo of the tower in the 1920's.
Ted
At 07:55 AM 1/2/2003 -0600, you wrote:
For what it's worth, the former MILW is owned and at times even
maintained by the BN/BNSF from the switch of the interchange
track to the crossing at the North end of the fertilizer plant.
It was my understanding that Prairie Sand & Gravel owns from
that point to the end of track downtown.
Russ
> > The interlocking can be accessed from the blacktop road which is
> > on the south side of the PDC prison area. There is a gravel road
> > that goes south and takes one down toward the interlocker. The
> > gravel road is located a few blocks east of the Q's mainline.
> > IIRC, the BNSF signal maintainer lives south of the WSOR mainline
> > and has a Q baggage car on his property.
> >
> > LWA
>
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>
> I must have missed that when I was at Crawford 3 weeks ago. I was up
> there to take a picture of the exact site of where the tower once
> stood with the operator (my grandfather, Allan M. Caya) from the 1960
> picture standing on the remains of the foundation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Samuel T. Weber
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Ted Schnepf
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