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Subject: [CBQ] Re; Camanche, Albany....
From: "Gerald A. Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:49:39 -0000
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In the 1850's every RR in the midwest was anxious to cross the 
Mississippi with the Rock being the 1st to do so (& shortly thereafter 
giving their hired atty a big political boost when he won a case for 
them vs. a steamboat firm that rammed their bridge - a fellow named Abe 
Lincoln).  Anyway, CB&Q predecessors, IC, C&NW, etc. were all looking 
for crossings and Camanche at the time was as prosperous as nearby 
Clinton.  Thus it's not surprising that investors there would have 
helped finance a line further east with hopes it would eventually come 
west & cross the mighty Mississippi.  Of course it never did get that 
far and C&NW crossed a couple miles north making Clinton a bigger town 
than Comanche.  The Q of course did get across at Dubuque, then the 2nd 
largest city on the Mississippi (to St. Louis) via IC trackage rights 
and ultimately went north to St. Paul as the CB&N but as Paul Harvey 
would say, come to the annual meet in Dubuque to hear the rest of the 
story!   Gerald




 
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