Casper Sub, Wyoming. Beside the dam that creates the Boysen Reservoir, at the
south end of the Wind River Canyon.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Russ Strodtz" <normansen@...> wrote:
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> Glen,
>
> And "Boysen Tunnel" is what and where?
>
> Barstow to Denrock (in general) 112# RE SH CWR 1965
>
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GLEN HAUG" <glenehaug@...>
> To: <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 19 April, 2009 20:30
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> From: rkeil6721@...
> 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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