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Re: [CBQ] help with a layout location

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] help with a layout location
From: Ted Schnepf <railsunl@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:44:09 -0500
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Hi Jim,

In a small space you are best off modeling a urban switching type 
layout.  The Q and CGW came together in many locations including the 
Quad Cities, Des Moines. Council Bluffs, St. Paul, KC, Dubuque and 
several other spots.

Ted

At 05:31 PM 10/9/2008, you wrote:
>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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