[CBQ] Browning IL

[Stan Maddox <stan.maddox@burlingtongulf.com>]

List,

I was out yesterday exploring portions of the old Astoria and  
Browning IL right-of-way, and I met a local fellow while I was taking  
pictures of the Browning CB&Q depot. He was quite friendly and  
helpful. He said that a steam locomotive nicknamed "Maude" used to be  
based there, and that it would push the trains up the hill towards  
Astoria. He said the crew would top off the locomotive with water  
from the reservoir (at Emmanuel Lake near Bader, perhaps?) and then  
drift backwards back down the hill. He wasn't quite sure what year  
they pulled the tracks through Browning, but he was thinking  
somewhere around 1962. Can anyone confirm that date? Does anyone have  
additional information to share on this area, and/or has information  
on this area ever been published in a book or magazine?

Thanks,
Stan Maddox


 
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