Sounds like it might be interesting to reproduce the booklet or parts of it
in your column
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:18 PM
Subject: [CBQ] 1941 CB&Q excursion
> Found a bklt for the June 15, 1941 excursion discussed a bit
> earlier on the list - now all we need is to confirm which loco(s)
> were used and possibly what type of passenger cars? (inside of cover
> shows 5634 & 35 in a 'then & now' comparison but doubt 5634 was
> used). The Q produced a glossy cover bklt with 13 single pages inside
> with a detailed itinerary for the trip. In 13&1/4 hrs, fans (under
> auspices of the RR Club of Chicago) made a R/T from Chicago as
> follows:
> Chi to Aurora & then down Streator branch & NW from Streator thru
> LaSalle to Zearing. Then followed the main back toward Chi as far as
> Mendota where they rejoined the branch line network to Denrock, then
> to Sterling and back east to Earlville with main line running back
> thru Aurora to Chi. Special note is made of 5 past & present
> shortlines to be seen: Illinois Midland @ Millington, the abandoned
> Lowell & Southern @ L&S Jct, the LaSalle & Bureau County, the Hooppole
> Yorktown & Tampico and the Lee Co. Electric. ROW's of abandoned CA&E
> and Fox & Illinois Union and Chi, Ottawa & Peoria are also noted.
> Best 'new' thing I learned was the following notation (for all you
> arborist's): Burgess Jct "Note grove of catalpas @ Jct. This & similar
> groves were planted on RR property by a former Burlington Gen.
> Superintendent who planned to use the wood derived therefrom for
> ties, fence posts, etc. Other similar catalpa groves will be
> observed enroute today." (Note: for the non-Boy Scouts; catalpas
> have large 'elephant ear' leaves with monkey tail (sword-like) seed
> pods handing down - no other tree looks like them (also very perfumed
> white flowers for one week every spring). Anyone aware of this
> forestry effort by the Q or recall noting such groves elsewhere?
> I've to Burgess Jct but was not looking for trees but rather the old
> branch.
> The handout also goes in great detail on what the Q was doing work-
> wise @ Western Ave., Eola, Aurora, Montgomery, Yagan Pit, etc at the
> time. What a trip! (not to mention a highly cooperative mgt!) Gerald
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