Dick:
Red Oak to Balfour (east of Pacific Jct) was never double tracked. However,
there were 5 long sidings between these two points which makes the grade in a
substantial portion of the line to appear to have been double track.
Statistics that I have found substantiate that it was always single track
mileage. The original single track was constructed in 1870, and substantially
relocated in 1902-03. Signal records indicate that in 1907, controlled manual
block signals were installed on roughly 23 miles of SINGLE track between Red
Oak and Balfour. At that time the ends of double track were at MP 443.75 and
466.44, which would equal 22.69 miles of single track. Signal records also
indicate that ABS signals were completed in December 1919 from Creston, Ia. to
Gibson, NE., totaling about 108 miles of which 63.6 miles was double track.
The DT mileage figure almost exactly accounts for DT between Creston and Red
Oak (50.65 miles), DT between Balfour and Pacific Jct (8.8 miles) and DT
between Plattsmouth and Oreapolis (3.8 miles). This would substantiate that
Red Oak to Balfour was still single track. Then in May of 1929, CB&Q announced
that it would install CTC on 24? miles of it's single track line between the
same two points. Signal records go on to show that CTC was completed in
December of that year on 25.3 miles of road between Red Oak and Balfour, which
included 22.7 miles of single track and 2.6 miles of double track (about 1.5
miles at Balfour and 1.1 miles at Red Oak). So the 22.7 miles of single track
shows up again in 1929.
I list all these references because I recall reading information in books over
the years that mistakenly indicate that this piece of railroad might have been
double track, and I think they are in error.
Glen Haug
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: bigeee@trainvideos.com
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:59:36 +0000
Subject: [CBQ] Red Oak to Pacific Junction single track
Did the CB&Q ever have double track between Red Oak and Pacific junction. If so
when was this section of line single tracked and CTC put in.
thanks,
Dick Eisfeller
Big "E" Productions
bogeee@trainvideos.com
Working on a video of that section of track.
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