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Subject: [CBQ] Re: yards at galva il
From: "Rory Murchison" <murchi209@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:55:19 -0000
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1952 maybe, not 62. I used to play on the pile of tiles that blocked 
the tracks in 62.

 Check this link out. Always wondered why it was called the Dolly.

http://www.thehawkeye.com/columns/Hansen/2003/Hansen_0622.html

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, fred starr <frdstarr@...> wrote:
>
> hi 
>   I think they stoped using it in 1962 as i recall the last run was 
with school kids from galva road it had a pice in the paper about it. 
fred
> 
> Rory Murchison <murchi209@...> wrote:
>           
> Noel, yes the Q ran somewhat parallel to the RI west of town. This 
> line went to New Boston. Its the line the "Dolley", a Q gas 
electric, 
> would take. Got pics somewhere from a local rag called the 
Galvaland.
> 
> The line was abandoned in the 40's sometime. (way befor my time! 
born 
> in 52)
> 
> But the track ran behind the area of Galva you lived in just to get 
> to Lilly Tulip. It was just long enough for the SD7 and a 50' box. 
> There were a whole mess of ties and scrap metal from Hank 
McMillians 
> crap yard on the track further west in the 60's.
> 
> My best friend Mike lived right across from the foundry. When the 
RI 
> trains would come into town from Silvis, they would stop at the 
West 
> edge of town and phone the Q tower to get clearance to cross the 
> diamond. My buddy Mike and I would sometimes walk down the track 
and 
> ride the caboose back to his house. Train would be going at a 
pretty 
> good clip when we got there! (I know, I know. Dangerous! Kids don't 
> do this! We were dumb, invicible kids at the time!)
> 
> Ahhhh yes, the old-old-daze!
> 
> Rory
> 
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Noel Raley <bnrifan@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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