Rory,
My dad and grandma used to work at Lilly Tulip, and my dad got pics
of the whole place before they tore it down. Maybe he has some
pictures of the track you are talking about. I was going on the
memory of a 12 year old, as I was born in '69 in Kewanee, but my
family and I have always lived in Galva.
I did not know the CBQ switched the foundry and did not know that was
coke, not coal. Makes sense, because you are correct. What came out
of the bottom of those cars, went into the elevated dumper that went
up to the blast furnace. I had three uncles that worked at the
foundry, and when we would go visit to drop something off to them
(like their lunch or just to talk to them briefly) I would watch the
elevated dumper work.
When the ROCK would come into town from Bishop Hill, I would run from
my grandma's house (about 12 houses west from the foundry), and watch
the ROCK do their thing in town. I remember fondly the growl of the
geep diesels as they idled and their bells a dinging, as they blocked
US34 traffic while switching the foundry.
Ahhh the good 'ole days.
-Noel
PS According to Bill Selleck, there was also a CBQ line next to the
ROCK line that crossed over US34 at w. division street. I do not
ever remember Burlington locomotives in that area of Galva, but then
they could have been, before I was born.
At 06:28 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote:
>The foundry was switched by both the Q and the RI. As I recall, the Q
>would setout boxcars full of casting sand. The rock would setout
>coke, not coal, for the blast furnace. (or maybe the other way around)
>
>The Q would also setout 50' boxcars at Lilly Tulip cup co, which was
>right next to the foundry. Had a heck of a curve and they used SD7's.
>Would squeel like mad as the flanges hit the rail!
>
>Rory
>--- In <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com>CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Noel Raley
><bnrifan@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Rick,
> >
> > Are you referring to the ROCK or BN?
> >
> > What side of US 34 are you referring to? There was a ROCK track on
> > the SE side of US 34 that went through town, crossed over the CBQ
> > mainline, snaked through where those huge Gateway COOP storage
>silos
> > are, and came out by the foundry, crossed US 34 and then finally
>went
> > around the backs of most of the houses on west division street to
> > Bishop Hill viaduct. The roadbed is still quite visible through
> > town, even behind west division and across US34 near where the
> > foundry used to be.
> >
> > Btw, did the ROCK switch the foundry? I remember black coal cars
> > sitting there (a few of them) some with the white and blue THE ROCK
>on them.
> >
> > I lived in Galva all my life up till 2000, when I moved to Kewanee,
> > then Southern, IL where I am at right now.
> >
> >
> > -Noel
> >
> > PS Sorry for OT post about ROCK on CBQ group.
> >
>
>
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