I do not have the CD. Thanks for the information as I'm planning on modeling
the Walnut Creek bridge just west of Red Oak as it would have appeared in the Q
days. Wife and I took a trip there this morning to get some pics. Of course,
right after we left to go home, we met an eastbound only about 3 miles up the
road. Would have been nice to catch it on the bridge (would have been much
nicer to know what a Q train looked like on it!).
Ricky
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> From: glenehaug@msn.com
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:30:39 -0700
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Welded Rail
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> Rick:
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> Do you have a copy of the alignment charts from the 60's that (I believe)
> Steve Holding put on CD? A study of these would give you quite a bit of
> information about the locations of welded rail on the Q.
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> I'm not looking at my alignment charts right now, so I am going from memory.
> If we ignore 78' rails and the Boysen Tunnel for the moment, I think the
> earliest welded rail on the Q is 1961. The earliest roll date stamped on the
> rail that I have seen is 1959. The vast majority, if not all, of the new
> welded rail from the early 60's on is 136# CF&I.
>
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>
> The majority of new 136# welded rail was on Lines West, practically all of it
> west of Hastings on the Denver line, and there was a lot of it on this line.
> I would guess that this was because the Denver line had most of the 112# that
> was older than 1940, and I would suspect that it included a fair amount of OH
> (open hearth) rail as opposed to CC (control cooled) rail. There were big
> welded rail programs throughout the 60's on the Denver line. There were also
> small amounts of new 136# near Greenwood, Nebraska in the late 60's. The
> Boysen Tunnel had 129#TR welded rail, laid in 1950.
>
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>
> Lines East had much less welded rail, probably because much of the rail was
> 131#, 129#TR, and 112#TR. And I believe the 112#RE had a service date of 1940
> or after with much of it in the 50's, and I think it was all control cooled.
> There were also a lot of 78' rails on Lines East. I don't remember any welded
> rail between Creston and the Missouri River. Nevertheless, there were
> respectable amounts of 136# welded between Princeton and Neponset, between
> Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa, on Albia Hill, and between Shannon and Woodburn.
> Also, much of the rail between Macomb and Camp Point was 136# CWR. And right
> at merger, BN began to lay 136# CWR between Chicago and Aurora using rail
> ordered by the Q.
>
>
>
> The rail between Barstow and Denrock, referred to in a previous post was 112#
> SH Welded in 1965, probably using the bolted 112# recovered from Lines West.
> There was also quite a bit of SH 112# welded between Bushnell and Vermont,
> and there may have been some between Concord and Centralia.
>
>
>
> Glen Haug
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>
>
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> From: rkeil6721@hotmail.com
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:53:21 -0500
> Subject: [CBQ] Welded Rail
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> When did welded rail come into common use on teh Q. I'm specifically asking
> about the mainline west of Creston, IA to the Missouri River.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ricky Keil
>
> Bellevue, NE
>
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