Have now added a 1965 photo that shows how LC leaves the Ice
House, uses the Quincy Main, and then moves to the right to
connect with Main 2 headed East. It crosses the Peoria Line.
The current trackage now is no longer like that but of course
we only pay a shortline to go to Peoria at all and there is
no longer any coal on that line.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Campbell" <amtrak347@aol.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, 13 March, 2009 12:20
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Question on Galesburg
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "zephyr98072" <glenehaug@...> wrote:
>>
>> At Galesburg, after leaving the depot area, did the Quincy Main go over
>> the Peoria Passenger Main on a bridge? The alignment charts seem to show
>> the tracks this way. If so, was the clearance minimal? There would not
>> have been much distance for the two lines to achieve much vertical
>> separation.
>>
>> Glen Haug
>>
>
> Glen -
> What is the date of the alignment chart you're looking at? To the best of
> my knowledge, the Peoria Main and the Quincy Main are pretty much at grade
> level. The Quincy Main does rise up higher in elevation to go over an
> employee underpass providing access to the roundhouse. The underpass is
> still there, but filled in with earth. There is a company service road at
> grade level near the location of the now closed underpass. In Russ'
> alignment chart (1930s) it shows the Quincy Main west of the roundhouse.
> This was later changed (I believe, in the 1930s revamp of the yard
> configuration) to an east side routing around the roundhouse that forms
> the west leg of the "Peoria Wye" that still exists today. The "tail" of
> the "Peoria Wye" forms the 50-mile Peoria Main. I do recall the removal
> of the "east" leg of the "Peoria Wye" being removed, I believe before the
> 1970 merger, and then having to be re-installed after the increased coal
> traffic to Peoria, post-merger. Interesting to note on Russ' chart the
> existance of Peoples Traction and the Rock Island Southern interurban
> lines.
>
> Bob Campbell
> Naperville, IL
>
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