Yes, first street interurban went from in front of the Galva
Hotel/CRIP depot to Kewanee.
A fellow RI'er! I was a switchman in the yard at Peoria during the
summer prior to going to Bradley. (1970)
Rory
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, richard haave <therrboomer@...> wrote:
>
> Old maps of Galva very interesting!
>
> On the 1923 map it looks like another rail line on S.E. First
street ending in a wye south of the downtown area. Was this an
interurban?
>
> The map dated 1975 showing the Rock Island as gone has the wrong
date. In 1975 and 1976 I was firing the first crew on the Silvis-
LaFayette mine switcher which went thru Galva to just northwest of
LaFayette and then went on Midland Electric Coal Co's (Mecco)
trackage to Victoria (IL) mine. One of our jobs was to deliver 120
cars (in 30 car sets) per week to BN at Galva. We'd pull thru town
toward northwest and then show back around north side of depot and
out into a track north of both main tracks east of town. Coal was
destined to Iowa Southern Utilities at Burlington.
>
> The rest of coal loaded at Victoria mine went to Iowa City, where
the Crandic took it to Cedar Rapids.
>
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