Chris;
I highly recommend that you purchase a copy of Burlington Bulletin #23,
which provides a great deal of background on the Q's facilities and
operations at Burlington, IA. You may also be interested in BB #26
which covered the West Burlington shops but has info about Burlington,
and BB#30 which provided a detailed look at the B&W and B&NW branches
(the B&NW was the line up to Washington). The answers to most of your
questions, as well as a lot of other information is to be found in these
references. BB#23 even has trackage diagrams of the yard, roundhouse
and station area. I'm not certain, but BB#30 may now be sold out at the
BRHS company store. If so, chances are that one of our members may know
where a copy may be found.
An order form for these publications may be found in the company store
section at the BRHS web site: www.burlingtonroute.com
If you are interested, I have put together the start of a web site
featuring the B&NW, and it may be found at :
http://showcase.netins.net/web/adams7/websites/B&NWsite/index.htm
You'll need to click the "home" link in the Nav bar at left for the main
page to display. (I apparently broke the default in the code when I
modified it last time.)
Kind regards, Rob Adams
Christopher Meyer wrote:
> The yard at Burlington was never installed with humps and retarders, was it?
> This was obviously a much smaller yard than the one at Galesburg, so I've
> decided to model this facility rather than the huge facilities of Galesburg.
> Wasn't the Rock Island RR interchange on the north side of the yard? Where
> did the branch to Washington, IA connect to the main in Burlington? I think
> the roundhouse was on the west side of the yard, so where was the Burlington
> station, what did it look like, and was the ROCK a tenant at this station, or
> did the CRI&P have it's own Burlington station?
>
> Thanks for any info.,
>
> Christopher
>
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