Steve,
In addition to the depots, some towers had coal sidings to bring coal
to them for heating. The tower at the west end of Downers Grove had
such a siding for many years although, by the '50s, it had disappeared.
The switch for the siding was just west of Forest Ave. There never was
a road into the tower. Tower personnel parked near the turntable and
walked across the triple track mainline to get to the tower. I am sure
other towers and other RR buildings also had provisions to bring
heating coal in where there was no other access.
Bill Barber
On Friday, July 22, 2005, at 06:35 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:54:18 -0500
> From: <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Roadnames In A 'Q Coal Train
>
> 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
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