The number on the signal is mp 245.1, south of La
Crosse.
--- Rob Adams <steamera@netins.net> wrote:
> I've posted an interesting picture to my web site.
> It is a Circa late
> 1920's or early 1930's picture of workers cleaning
> up following a
> flood, from a negative I purchased a few years ago.
> In the view, there
> is a lower quadrant semaphore with rectangular
> blade, dark with light
> stripe, perhaps red/white (I have another negative
> of the same signal
> that was ruined by mold, but shows the entire signal
> mast and blade).
> The location is unknown, but I presume it to be
> somewhere on the CB&Q
> because the other negatives in the collection are of
> CB&Q subjects, and
> appear to have been taken by a CB&Q employee. The
> signal is marked
> N245.1, which I presume to be a mile number. Can
> any of you confirm
> that it is a Burlington signal, and help with
> identifying it? The
> image is on my home page at:
>
> <http://www.KeokukandWesternRR.com>
>
> Clicking on the image will bring up an enlarged
> version.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards, Rob
>
> --
> Rob Adams
> Wellman, IA
> steamera@netins.net
> Modeling CB&Q, CRI&P and Wabash operations in
> Keokuk, IA,
> the Wabash Bluffs, IL to Keokuk branch,
> and the CB&Q's Keokuk & Western branch, circa 1938
> <http://www.KeokukandWesternRR.com>
>
>
>
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