Dave:
Your questions more or less answered below.
Bill
Bill Diven
Placitas, N.M.
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From: dsarther <sartherdj@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 3 May 2009 9:25 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Oregon photos
>>Bill,
>>Thanks for posting the great photos taken at Oregon, IL. They bring
back some great memories of my riding on those trains to and from
college in that exact era. In fact now I am in the midst of creating a
replica of the Oregon, Il station. Now that I have additional
information about the freight house and other RR structures from other
photo postings here on the "CB&Q" site I hope to eventually expand the
station structure into more of a diorama.<<
I've got a couple of shots of the freight house including one from the
street side I'll get posted one of these days. Also an RPPC of the
previous station that became the freight house after the fire ca. 1913.
>>Now that I have seen your photos I have a few questions:<<
>>Were you a native of Oregon, IL?<<
Yes. Lived there 1951-64, visited summers 1965-68, 1970.
>>On your "original postcard view" of the station a sign is quite
evident on the wall section between the baggage room door and the
station agent's door. Can you tell what that sign says?<<
Not really. Looks like a circular sign with a horizontal label across
the middle. Letters are indistinct but about right for Western Union.
However I would think the telegraph business would be conducted through
the agent's public window to the waiting room. So pending a better
photo, your guess is as good as mine.
>>I recall from a vintage "Buick inspection car" photo posted on
another of the Oregon, IL photo collections here on the site that was
taken from a trackside station view that there was a "Bell phone" sign
near the waiting room door. Do you have any knowledge as to whether
there was a similar sign near the waiting room door on the street
side?<<
Don't recall specifically but would think so. Very few public phones
at that end of town. In my era that might have been the only one.
>>Do you have an approximate date for the photo of the E-5 taken at
Oregon? Was it from this same time period as the other photos you
posted?<<
Without digging out the negative or the print I'd say 1963.
>>I never realized how many of the old troop cars were used on the
Eola/Oregon Turn. Do you have any idea as to how many might have
appeared in the average "turn" at the height of business?<<
That probably varied by season, and someone more familiar with the
Eola-Oregon job might have a better answer since I didn't see it very
often. I don't recall more than a few loads coming down from Mount
Morris on a given day, but empties would stack up in the Oregon yard.
Lot more sand hoppers, though (my grandfather and a partner owned the
quarry west of town until about 1958). Since the earlier photo upload
today I've added several more including a wide shot of a waycar parked
across from the depot showing a very mixed string of Burlington freight
cars on a siding in the background. Also three shots of MOW cars that
often sat in a string opposite and maybe a little east of the depot and
a shot of the trackside depot entrance with a reasonable approximation
of the colors used in trim, roof supports, etc.
>>I especially appreciate the photos of the Zephyrs, the Builder and
NCL at Oregon. They bring back some vivid memories of racing along the
Mississippi Palisades in the domes watching the signals change to red
and wishing the trip along the river wouldn't end, and of dozens of
views of the Oregon station from the domes of those trains between 1963
and 1967.<<
Never rode the Builder or NCL myself, but they were sights to behold at
trackside.
>>Thanks, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
>>correct posting time was Sunday, May 3, 2009 8:25 local time
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