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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Galena Jct
From: "Lee" <litehousekeeper@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:16:38 -0000
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Have uploaded a few photographs of Galena Junction from our November visit.  
Located in "Galena Junction" folder in photos section:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/photos/album/223707347/pic/list

Lee 

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Lee & I hiked down to the former Galena Jct site during our annual 
> Thanksgiving father/son CB&Q railfan hike.  It's an easy walk along the 
> tracks from the foot of Red Gates Road as noted.  The Galena Historical 
> Society has posted a very good historic marker with vintage photos at trails 
> end (trail developed from Galena to Galena Jct on ex-Q roadbed).  Indeed the 
> old swing span was taken out yrs back as the river is no longer navigable. 
> The Historical Society has even more excellent photos mounted on markers in 
> Galena proper that fully show all the old Q (& IC/C&NW) tracks into Galena, 
> depots, etc.  
> 
>  
> 
> You may recall the last Q Agent @ Galena Jct was a speaker during the clinic 
> of ret'd RR'ers at the BRHS Annual Meet in Dbq 2&1/2 yrs ago.  he was the one 
> that mounted the antlers on N end of the Galena Jct depot that show up in so 
> many photos.
> 
> 
> 
> Gerald  
> 
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> 
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> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: bkrueger@...
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:50:41 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: East Dubuque & Portage photos?
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> 
> Brian, Glad you found the photos. The Galena River swingspan is long, long 
> gone. If you look on page 79 of Michael Spoor's "Chicago, Burlington & 
> Quincy" volume two book, you will see some rusted steel braces attached to 
> the top of the swingspan. My understanding is that patch/repair job was a 
> result of a mishap in the middle 60's. Don't know what hit it, a high-wide or 
> loose load or what..... The photo is from 1969 and I don't see the cabin, so 
> I don't know when that was removed. My understanding is that the swingspan 
> was replaced in the 70's.
> 
> What is there now is a single track girder bridge. No need to swing a bridge 
> as there is no traffic upriver toward Galena. I was up there roughly 5 years 
> ago and my recollection is that I stood on the bridge and looked down and saw 
> a round pier, which obviously was from the former swingspan. I always found 
> it intersting that the current single span bridge was never upgraded/replaced 
> to/with two tracks since there is double track approaching from the 
> south(east by RR standards) and Portage with it's double track is only a 
> short distance to the north(west by RR standards). I was once told that 
> traffic didn't warrant it, but it would seem to be quite a bottleneck.
> 
> The twin bridges are the ones which cross the Sinsinawa River. Those are of 
> I.C. vintage. There is a road called "Red Gates Road", which is across from 
> McDonalds in Galena. If you take that road and follow it 2 or 3 miles toward 
> the river you will eventually come to the Burlington double track. The 
> bridges are about 3 quarters of a mile by rail from there toward Dubuque. I 
> was going to hike that a number of years ago but a bridge inspector literally 
> popped out from under a bridge close by and informed me that if he ever 
> caught me on the property again he would have me arrested. That sufficiently 
> scared me to not trying that again. 
> 
> Google "Earth" shows the area in high resolution. You might try looking at 
> that program to see the area from up high. It is interesting to follow the 
> lines all the way from Savanna to East Dubuque.
> 
> There are surely those on this forum who know much more than I do about 
> Portage and Galena Jct. Perhaps someone might have more specific knowledge to 
> share??? 
> 
> Bob Krueger
> 
> > 
> > Since you live near Portage, are you up for a couple more questions?
> > 
> > 1) The "Twins North of Portage" photo, those are the spans over the 
> > Sinsinawa River?
> > 
> > 2) I have not yet found contemporary photos of the Galena River bridge. Is 
> > it the same today as then in the 1930s, including abutments, swing span 
> > apparatus and round pier? If so, I assume the wood operator's cabin is long 
> > gone. 
> 
> > 
> > Bob, thank you again,
> > 
> > Brian Chapman
> > Evansdale, Iowa
> >
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