Wow! this is great - thank you so much for posting the track chart, Steven. It
really
clarifies what's in the photo - which we now can deduce was taken from the
overpass at
MP 98.70. Engine 5632 is on the Mt. Morris track, returning to its train. Your
track chart
also confirms there was indeed a siding (not a spur) threading behind the
cement facility
and in front of the grain bins. It re-joins the main on the west side of the
overpass.
Two questions for anyone who might know: (1) what was the function of all those
spur
tracks at the east end of the yard? What industries did they serve? (2) On this
fan trip,
where would 5632 have been turned? I don't see a wye nearby.
Thanks again for sharing this document.
Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@...> wrote:
>
> Finally got around to putting the Oregon Track Chart in the file section
> Do not know if I put it in right it is a TIFF file(what ever that it)
> There are two charts One the main line thru town the other the start of the
> Mt. Morris
Line
> SJH
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: bigbearoak <jonathanharris@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:33:40 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] Oregon track layout
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups. com, "Tom Mack" <thommack@ .> wrote:
> >
> > (snip)
> >
> > In the other photo I have from 1963 there appears to be a track that
> > may go right up next to grain elevators. Does anyone know if this is
> > the case? I can't seem to see it in Jonathan's photo.
> >
> >
>
> I think I can see a track running in front of the "elevators" (if that's what
> they are; they
look a
> little more like Butler bins to me, though it's hard to tell). The track
> appears to be quite
> overgrown with weeds/grass, but the path seems to follow a pretty clear arc
> from that
string
> of cars at the right rear of the photo, the front one of which looks like
> maybe a troop
kitchen
> car conversion. My guess would be there was a track there - whether a siding
> or a spur
is
> impossible to say. Somebody's gotta have a real track diagram of the place.
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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