Gerald
Sorry my CO&P History is running 125 pages in the first rough draft. Am
working on a Fox River branch piece for the Bulletin. The maps of Ottawa
should be of much interest to some
SJH
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From: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:58 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Misc historic CB&Q facts
> I was wandering thru some OER's looking for data in support of Rupert's
big Q frt car project and gleaned the following:
> Per May "25 qrtly Register (sumaries of all RR's, officials, etc). The
Q's fleet of 1427 passenger cars was the 10th largest of all RR's
> (and does not include C&S/FtW&D). In contrast, UP had 1396, GN had 1032,
NP 1021. Q's was 2.04% of a national fleet of 69,961.
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> In terms of locomotives, Q had 1968 - the 6th largest fleet; UP had 1959,
GN 1328 & NP 1428. Q's was 2.57% of 76,671 nationally.
>
> Freight cars? Q had the 7th largest group: 69,288 (plus 769 waycars,
1682 ballast cars & 2973 MOW) . UP had 52,506; GN 53,104
> & NP 47,692. Of those Q frt cars: 29,968 box [27,905 plain box, 2053
auto box, 9 barrel & 1 furniture]; 27,079 open top [22,112 drop
> bottom gon's, 4961 flat botton gons & 6 hoppers]; 12,241 "others" [6515
sgl deck stock, 762 dbl deck stock, 3285 reefers, 1347 flats,
> 330 gen service tanks & 2 special service tanks]. Q's share nationally
was 2.61% of all revenue frt cars. (not counting 264,983
> privately owned frt cars in addition to the 2,650,686 RR-owned)
>
> Now for a 1919 USRA OER; i.e. which smaller RR's were assigned to the Q by
the Fed's (larger RR's were given responsiblity for
> smaller RR's - if they were the only outside connection, the small RR was
theirs, if 2 or more larger RR's connected it was usually on
> a basis of who did the most business with each other). The Q had 25
shortlines & interurbans assigned (I show date of eventual
> abandonment where known & location if not obvious - no, I wasn't when most
of these hit the dust either!)
>
> Aurora, Elgin & Chicago (became CA&E); Bevier & Southern; Chicago, Aurora
& DeKalb (Aurora); Creston, Winterset & Des Moines;
> Fox & ILlinois Union (Aurora); Galesburg Great Eastern; Galesburg &
Kewanee Electric; Gaklesburg, Rockford & Northern (became
> Hooppole, Yorktown & Tampico); Hannibal Connecting*; Illinois Central
Electric (Canton); Illinois Midland; Iowa Southern (Centerville);
> Iowa & South Western (Clarinda); LaSalle & Bureau County; Lee County
Electric; Macomb, Industry & Littleton; Oregon & Interurban
> (Forest City, MO); Peoples Traction (Galesburg); Peru, LaSalle & Deer Park
(LaSalle, IL); Rock Island & Southern; St. Louis &
> Hannibal ("44); Shelby County ("28) & Shelby North West ("38 MO); Tabor &
Northern ("34 IA) and Wyoming ("52). *Interstingly no
> interchange shown by the Q in their OER entry!
> The following small lines were assigned to a competitor of the Q: Billings
& Central Montana (NP); Muscatine, Burlington & Southern
> (RI); LaCrosse & South Eastern (GB&W)
> The following were not assigned to any RR: Rockport, Langon & Northern
("41); Sioux City Terminal; Davenport, Rock Island & NW;
> Union Terminal (St. Joe) and Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria. The S.C. & Union
Terminal RR's were not shown in OER (an occaisional
> experience for very small RR's) but are shown on the Burlington's
interchange list. The S.C. Terminal existed as an independent in to
> BN times as a matter of fact and former trackage than split between BN &
Milw.
>
> These small feeders to the Q, especially the ones wholly connected to the
Q, would all be good subjects for brief articles in the
> Burlington Bulletin. We always need authors - what do you say???
Gerald
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