Per George W. Hilton and John F. Due's The Electric Interurban Railways
in America, pp 344-345 the Galesburg & Kewaunee Railway opened 7 Dec
1906 between Kewaunee and Galva. They had streetcars in Kewaunee but
weren't able to extend to Galesburg. In 1924 they were re-organized as
the Kewaunee and Galva Railway. They provided a connection for the RI
to Kewaunee. Service ended 31 Dec 1932.
Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado
richard haave 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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