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Re: [CBQ] help with a layout location

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] help with a layout location
From: "Russ Strodtz" <borneo@19main.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:04:59 -0500
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Charlie,

CB&Q/IC did not "paralled the CB&Q/IC". CB&Q abandoned
West of Portage after they made an agreement that made
the IC with two double track. What that actually means
is that for a while there were three tracks in service.

Russ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
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Sent: Thursday, 09 October, 2008 17:46
Subject: Re: [CBQ] help with a layout location


> Jim-
> The CB&Q and CGW did not see each other in Savanna.... the Milwaukee Road 
> had a large yard adjacent to the Q yards there though.
> You are probably thinking about East Dubuque, where the Q and IC shared 
> trackage rights and CGW joined them at Galena... and took
> the IC over the bridge at East Dubuque to Dubuque.
> MR had an article about the point where the IC split off from the Q, went 
> into a curved tunnel bored through the palisades to cross the
> Q at a right angle and crossed the river on fixed spans and a swing 
> bridge.
> I am including that area in my N Scale railroad and Jeff Wilson had 
> articles in MR about his HO railroad that modeled the point (Portage)
> where the IC joined the Q (or rather their lines paralled, as the IC built 
> along the river to East Dubuque first).
> Charlie Vlk
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
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>  Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:31 PM
>  Subject: [CBQ] help with a layout location
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>  Please feel free to contact me off list. I am planning on a new HO
>  layout and had been planning on modeling the CBQ/CGW lines near
>  Savanna, Il. However with a 11' x 20'room , I don't think I have
>  enough room to do what I was planning without too many compromises. My
>  era would be mid to late the 1960's and I would still like to base a
>  layout on CB&Q and CGW - mostly freight operations. My question is
>  there other locations where these two railroads operated that would be
>  worth considering?
>
>  Jim
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