La Crosse, WI had street running in several places.
The old passenger station was downtown. A booklet on
Grand Crossing has photos of shovelnose Zephyrs on
muddy streets. BRHS Calander a few years ago also
showed street trackage w/steam loco. Track and most of
the buildings in photo still exhist. Winona, MN also
had Wall Street with trackage for about 8-10 blocks,
but I don't know of the Q used it. I know Milw. Rd.
and GBW(one leg of wye) did and CP still does. Some
trackage on 2nd Street(Winona, MN) seems to be in the
street also. Winona is a very interesting town for
railroads. Anybody coming to Minnesota should include
both Winona & La Crosse in their plans.
--- Karl L Rethwisch <qrailroadman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Street runnin'.
> Rock Falls/Sterling were two of the towns in which I
> ran engines down
> the middle of a street.
> Leaving Rock Falls the tracks crossed the Rock River
> and then the
> C&NW. After crossing the Northwestern the track
> made a left hand curve
> and proceeded down the street to the intersection
> with route 88.
> Often the light would stop the traffic and the RR
> for Rt. 88. With
> cars stopped ahead of the engine it was
> "interesting" to ring the bell
> or "toot" the whistle. The response was, often,
> hilarious. Never
> caused a wreck (that I knew of) but had LOTS a fun.
> Once in the Sterling "yard" all fun ceased. Tracks
> that held no more
> than five cars between crossings were used to store
> a thirty-car train
> for no. 94 that night.
> Rock Falls also had its interesting aspects.
>
> Karl
>
>
>
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