[CBQ] Re: Rock Falls Branch

["Bob Campbell" <amtrak347@aol.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Dustin" <dholschuh@...> wrote:
>
> ....Does anyone know where the Rock Falls switcher was kept after the 
> roundhouse was torn down?....
> 
> 
> Dustin Holschuh
> Rock Falls,Il
>

The Rock Falls switcher was kept in Sterling by the time I started to work 
there in the early 1970s.  When Mr. Dillion, owner of NWS&W died, so did the 
Earlville - Rock Falls - Sterling branch.  Poor car service and defered track 
maintanance killed off most of the on-line business. As I recall, there was a 
little shortline just east of Amboy called the Lee County Central Electric RR; 
remember setting-out a 40 ft. boxcar on the interchange track for grain 
loading.  Mr. Dillion made it a point to attend every abandonment hearing and 
prove that the branch was vital to his business.

Bob Campbell
Naperville, IL



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