Dave,
I have uploaded some items in the Files folder called YaganPit on the
list. One is from AU119 which is from the track charts sold by Steve
Holding showing only the Yagan Pit area. One is an undated hand
written record of the Yagan Pit area by an unkown trainman and one is
the CB&Q side track record with a last revised date of 1927.
Eric Mumper
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All!
> I'm passing on a question for someone who is not on the list. I need
> information on Yagan Pit on the Aurora -Streator branch (where he
lives). Do
> you know of anyone who might be at Oregon in April who might have
some info.
> Yagan is a rather large gravel pit area, and he is wondering what
type of a
> trackage arrangement might have been there in it's prime? He knows that
> there was a siding there, but was there trackage in the pit? The
timetable
> shows a Q siding capacity of something like 57 cars, but a total
capacity of
> over 80 cars for the site. Aerial views aren't much help as the pit
area is
> now somewhat of a private resort area. He hiked the track last year, but
> says it is difficult to even see where the siding was. Yagan Pit
(Yagan on
> the timetable, not Yaegan as many people spell it) apparently did
not exist
> until sometime AFTER 1922. The land was owned by Yale and Regan, so
I have
> concluded that the combined names became YAGAN as in YAle and reGAN.
This,
> was at one time, a fairly large river gravel operation, and there
have been
> some nasty derailments there. Has there ever been any articles on
Yagan in
> any Bulletins? Conkey Sand and Gravel, adjoining on the west side of the
> property was in operation in 1922.
> Thanks for any help that can be provided.
>
> Dave Lotz
> Pooler, GA
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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