It was suggested that this signal may have been located south of LaCrosse.
While that is possible (actually a few miles north of Prairie du Chien), I
believe a more likely location for this signal is at MP 245.1 between Edison
and Arapahoe, Nebraska.
This particular track section sustained severe damage in 1935 from Republican
River floods, and several sections of track between Oxford and McCook were
actually relocated as a result. There is obvious flood damage in the
photograph, and the background view just appears more like the Republican River
valley than the upper Mississippi valley, which would probably include bluffs
in the background. The N designates the westbound signal on the North side of
the track. The westbound signal would virtually always end in an odd number,
hence N245.1, and the number (a signal number and not an exact MP number) was
usually within a 10th of a mile of its exact location.
Glen Haug
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Adams<mailto:steamera@netins.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Any Burlington Route signal experts out there?
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<http://www.keokukandwesternrr.com/>>
Clicking on the image will bring up an enlarged version.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards, Rob
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Rob Adams
Wellman, IA
steamera@netins.net<mailto: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<http://www.keokukandwesternrr.com/>>
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