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Re: [CBQ] Re: Question on Galesburg

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Question on Galesburg
From: "Russ Strodtz" <normansen@groundcontrol.us>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:48 -0500
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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>
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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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