James -
If you are serious about your search, you may have to abandon the
cyber-method and go back to the old fashioned research tools. Get in
touch with the Madison County Historical Museum, 715 N Main St
Edwardsville, Ill., 618-656-7562 and see if they can help you. Tell them
you are researching the old railroad bridge near where Lock 26 is. They
are nice folks and eager to help. They have some resources but just what
I don't know.Give it a try. Leave the web alone and go out and see for
yourself is my suggestion. If you are far away [it sounds like you may
be in Australia], letters and phone calls sometimes work almost as well.
Best of luck.
Jik Warsher
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wabashjae wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help guys,
> I have searched all over the web and I have only found a couple small
> pictures of the bridge (and no sites with more than one pic). I was
> hoping someone had a link to the site that John had mentioned, because
> again, I can't seem to dig up anything through Google searches.
>
> Thanks again,
> -James Ryan-
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...> wrote:
> >
> > The bridge and most, if not all, the track of the
> > M&IB&BRR are gone. But I know one piece that survives.
> > I have the anvil out of the M&IB&BRR roundhouse. Talk
> > about a bear to get up on the motor! A trip across
> > that bridge was something to remember. That thing
> > shook and shimmied under a loaded unit coal train (and
> > the speed limit was 5 MPH). The "pucker factor" was
> > large! There are pictures (many views) on the web, but
> > I can't tell you the link. Do a google search for
> > images with "Alton Bridge".
> > --- Rupert and Maureen <gamlenz@i...> wrote:
> > > James
> > >
> > > There is a note in Richard C Overton's "Burlington
> > > Route" (page 518) and I
> > > quote -
> > > "A lesser, though not inconsiderable project
> > > completed directly after the
> > > war was Burlington's acquisition of the single-track
> > > bridge across the
> > > Mississippi River between Alton, Illinois, and West
> > > Alton, Missouri, owned
> > > by the Missouri & Illinois Bridge & Belt Railroad
> > > Company. The Burlington
> > > accounted for about ninety percent of the business
> > > over the Alton Bridge:
> > > the rest came from local traffic at Alton and from
> > > interchange between the
> > > Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the railways on the east
> > > side of the river. This,
> > > then, was an essential facility, but one in which
> > > the CB&Q held no
> > > proprietary interest. Accordingly, during 1946 and
> > > 1947 the CB&Q brought
> > > the Bridge stock of all the proprietary railroad
> > > sand of the individual
> > > owners except for a two-elevenths interest of the
> > > Missouri Pacific. Thus
> > > the company gained control of a vital link and
> > > insured the continued prompt
> > > movement of its trains back and forth across the
> > > river in the St Louis
> > > district."
> > >
> > > Rupert Gamlen
> > > Auckland NZ
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "wabashjae" <wabashjae@y...>
> > > To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:52 AM
> > > Subject: [CBQ] Missouri & Illinois Bridge & Belt
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any info on the CB&Q subsidiary
> > > Missouri & Illinois
> > > > Bridge & Belt Railroad? The line started with a
> > > CB&Q link in West
> > > > Alton, MO and ran a few miles where it crossed the
> > > Mississippi River
> > > > and linked with several lines on the Alton, IL
> > > riverfront.So far the
> > > > only pic I have been able to dig up is a roster
> > > shot of this 0-6-0
> > > > switcher:
> > > > http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/MIBB52.JPG
> > > > If anyone can provide additional information it
> > > would be greatly
> > > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > -James Ryan-
> > > >
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