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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Way Freight
From: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:57:19 -0500
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Bill,

Don't know how Oregon got involved.  The photograph was
taken in Sterling.

Russ
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> 
> In a message dated 8/20/03 7:01:06 am, cbq682@grics.net writes:
> 
> >"CB&Q in Color #4" ... on page 71 there is an awesome
> >photograph of a GP-7 crossing the Rock River.  Along the left of the tracks
> >are three pipes that lead out on to the bridge and follow the tracks. 
> >What are these pipes for?
> 
> Greetings all:
> 
> Responses to this question mention interlocking systems and a lunar signal 
> protecting the CNW crossing.  Can somebody cite chapter and verse on this?  
> The 
> CNW (now UP) diamond at Rochelle is 13 miles away, and I've never heard of 
> interlocking at Oregon, the station a half mile or so west of the bridge.  
> Did 
> someone in Rochelle or Aurora have control over mainline switches in Oregon 
> in 
> lever days?  Admittedly my knowledge of signalling through here is skimpy 
> other 
> than it being mostly automatic-block territory with CTC through Rochelle by 
> 1941.  Pipes left over from ABS?
> 
> At one time there was at least one lever at Oregon to operate the train-order 
> semaphores across the main from the station.  For a westbound, these signals 
> on the fireman's side would appear quickly as the engine came off the west 
> Rock River bridge and curved into town.  Could the station have controlled an 
> approach signal on the island between the bridges or east of the east bridge 
> that 
> would account for these pipes?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Diven



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