Paul
Often mines were served by more then one road.
The Q(BN)use to get coal off the Rock Island at Galva from the south. Often we
would pick it up with an empty coal train headed west and set it out at Mt.
Pleasant for the hospital there
And why HOPPER cars. What about GS gons or just regular gons. Often grain
elevators had coal houses where some young deserving youngster got the chance
to unload coal into the house. Farmers would bring grain into the elevator and
take home coal. Also company coal was shipped in gons for unloading at depots
along the way.
As much could be written on the coal mines north of Beardstown as John wrote in
Bulletin 35 For that matter the same could be said for the Iowa Coal mines in
a state not noted for coal mining
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul K.
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:37 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Roadnames In A 'Q Coal Train
Greetings all.
The plan for my as yet to be built CB&Q based, proto-freelanced rural
branchline "somewhere" in rural Illinois between Chicago/Galesburg, is that the
main reason the branch was originally put in was to reach a coal seam in the
area. This was the case all over this area in the early part of the 20th
century and the many mines were served by various railroads criss-crossing this
area.
Of course, I would ASSume the majority of the hoppers on a CB&Q branch
serving a mine in this part of Illinois would be Burlington, but I'm wondering
if it would be prototypical/plausible or common for cars from other roads to be
in the consist of a coal drag as well. If so, are there any road's hoppers
that would pretty much NEVER be seen in the train?
Also, would a coal drag come into/leave the branch off the main as a unit
type train from Chicago or other areas of the state/country, or dribbled in/out
of the area on various trains to be assembled/broken down in the nearest yard
to the branch, or a combination of both? BTW, era is the latter half of the
1960's if this matters.
Any info on this would be much appreciated and you have my thanks in advance
. . .
"Paul (Kossart) - The CB&Q Guy"
North Central, IL Area
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Proto-Lancing the CB&Q "Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line" in the
1960's.
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