Don't forget the shops at Plattsmouth, Neb.. A lot of
cars and locomotives were built and repaired there. Of
course, in later days, it was a shop for BREX (and
National Car), so it built and repaired reefers. In
late steam engine days, Galesburg, Lincoln, Hannibal,
Sheridan, Casper, and even Beardstown did class 3-5
repairs(maybe more points too) with class 1-2
overhauls at West Burlington (and Denver until it
closed). Smaller shops like Centralia did class 3-5
repairs on lighter power like the Mikes and switch
engines. In fairly modern times, it is true that
Havelock was the only shop building freight cars but
heavy overhaul programs were done at several points,
Centralia and Sheridan come to mind. Before WWII,
Galesburg had the "steel car shop" AKA the "steel car
plant" which built freight cars of all types, not just
"steel" cars.
--- William Ewinger <b_ewinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi all
> what was done in shop complex that were in hannibal
> mo.
> bill ewinger
>
> clipperw@EarthLink.net wrote:
> Bob,
>
> In later steam years, Q had two locomotive heavy
> repair shops, W.
> Burlington and Denver. However, over the years,
> locomotives were also
> built and/or repaired at Aurora, IL and Havelock in
> Lincoln, NE. Aurora
> was a passenger repair shop up into the end and
> possibly later. Freight
> car shops also existed at W. Burlington in earlier
> years and Havelock.
> Many roundhouses, such as Galesburg, also did some
> level of overhaul.
> Denver shop never repaired diesels as it was closed
> in 1955. Most
> diesel overhauls were done at W. Burlington.
> However, some larger
> running shops, such as Lincoln and Clyde, did do
> lighter overhauls on
> diesels although, they were as efficient at it as
> was West B.
>
> Prior to the turn of the century, some of the
> predecessor lines had
> shop facilties in other locations that carried on
> for some period after
> consolidation with the Q. As for the Pioneer Zephyr
> and similar trains,
> "running repairs" were made at local shops in their
> assigned are and
> major work was done at the Aurora shops. The engines
> were most likely
> removed and sent to West B. for overhaul. Aurora
> Shops did wreck repair
> on the Zephyr, too, The Pioneer Zephyr was in there
> at least twice for
> major repair and the second TCZ was repaired there
> after its wreck at
> Downers Grove in 1947. It came out of the shop as
> the new Nebraska
> Zephyr.
>
> I am sure others can add more detail to this brief
> summary.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Saturday, March 12, 2005, at 03:11 AM,
> CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:38:27 -0600
> > From: "Bob & Marian Sorensen"
> <rksmes@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: CBQ Shops
> >
> > Without doing a lot of digging in the books,
> where were the main
> > shops located? Both engine and cars. I know West
> Burlington, Iowa
> > was an engine shop and that steam engines were
> built there. And that
> > cars were built at Lincoln, Nebraska. But there
> must have been other
> > major shops, some that must have been closed when
> diesels took over.
> > Also, where were the pioneer Zephyrs serviced?
>
>
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