Phillip, I recall a plate girder bridge that ran south from alongside
the upper stories of the Q freight house and over the road that now
leads to the suspension bridge (Broadway?). It appeared to lead south
towards some of that street trackage, but I don't recall what it
connected to northward. Was it all trestle work to get downgrade to
the yard area? What was that line called, what did it connect to, and
what was the grade? I have photos of the area that I shot during the
flood of '93, but I'm pulling all of this from memory so I could be
way off base. Please elaborate and/or correct as appropriate. Thanks.
Regards,
Stan
On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Philip Weibler wrote:
> Back around the middle of the previous century (actually, 1952)
> when my family moved to Quincy, it was fun to watch G-10 0-6-0s
> waddle down Front Street. If you're not familiar with how streets
> are named, let me offer this: "Front" is often the street next to
> the levee or, like in Quincy, next to the river. The river, of
> course, being the Mississippi. ("Railroad Street" is most often
> alongside the railroad, but Quincy didn't have one of those.) The
> freight house was at 2nd and Broadway ("Broadway", running east
> from the river, was the widest street in town, since it was
> intended to have a railroad running down the middle of it.) The
> grand old Quincy depot was at 2nd and Oak, a couple of blocks
> north. The shops, roundhouse, and yards were down at river level,
> which was about fifty feet lower than 2nd St., and were all north
> of Broadway. The line that ran south to Marble Head, Fall Creek,
> and New Canton came out of the yard there and ran along the west
> edge of Front St. for about twelve blocks. Then it went thru the
> Gardner-Denver plant (they still make air compressors for
> locomotives), a straw yard for the cardboard outfit in town, and
> past the soybean elevators. The Wabash came up this line from
> Hannibal, Missouri, and ran along Front St. until they veered off
> to get up to their freight house and team track along York St.
> There was a track that came south around the freight house, bridged
> Broadway, and served warehouses along 3rd St. to Maine St.
> Nowadays, the Burlington Junction Ry. (unless they've changed their
> name) uses this same track along Front St., but only goes a few
> miles south of downtown. There's a lot of work to be done in town,
> and the original Q yard is still used. BNSF, of course, does the
> line haul in and out of Quincy, but they're out of the local
> switching business.
> The old depot is long gone, the roundhouse was demolished a few
> years back for a sewer project, but the stone shop building - which
> dates from the 1850s - is still in use. And, of course, the G-10
> has been replaced by a Geep. PAW
>
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