After reading this post, I double checked and found that telegraph
poles have also been removed west of the Mississippi. I am so used
to seeing them, I didn't miss them.
We have had new ties dumped along the ROW for about a year. They
are now replacing them west of Burlington on the south track and
will probably be in Danville tomorrow.
Ken Vandevoort
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "drlaw45" <kandj@...> wrote:
>
> Took a trip yesterday to Galesburg and took the back road between
> Monmouth and Cameron.
>
> The telegraph poles between Galesburg and Monmouth have been cut
down.
> All the insulators were taken off the remaining poles which are in
> piles along the roadbed. New signals have been installed along the
> line, too. Loads of ties are line-side for replacement sometime
soon
> as well.
>
> Saw a CN unit on the SF line at Cameron. Furthest west I had seen
CN
> before. Normally, they did not stray west of Galesburg that I had
> seen. Anybody know about this?
>
> Also, the searchlight signals at Colchester and Tennessee on the
> Quincy line have now been replaces as well with the shaded UP-
style
> signals. The new highway is under construction west of Macomb and
> south of Tennessee. Part of the funding is to pay for two railroad
> Shoo-flies. So far, one beam is in place on the west side of the
> tracks at Tennessee, but nothing else has been done near the
tracks.
>
> Kam Miller
>
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