In my research it was the closing of smaller depots that opened the way for the
Interurban Era to build up. Once the interurbans were up and running the steam
roads introduced the doodlebugs
With the increase in auto and trucks siphoning off business from both this
brought the closer of branch lines and often the tearing up of second mains
allowing trains to bunch up and todays congestion
Steve in SC
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From: Bill Ewinger <bkewinger@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 8:49:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q stations eliminated pre-1909
if carthage jct.il. is carthage il. the cbq depot is still standing there it is
locatred about two blocks from where the diamond wouild have been with the
wabash
bill ewinger
burlington iowa
--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q stations eliminated pre-1909
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 8:06 PM
Per a list mbr request:
Beginning in approx 1900, CB&Q TT's took their modern day format with a full
index of all stations at front of TT. Pre-1900 TT's only had indexes of line
segments; i.e. Savanna to LaCrosse, thus it takes a LOT of time to find all the
station names (and pre-1880's have no indexes, just 'tables')
I found nearly 80 Stations listed in 1900 that had disappeared by 1909. Some
due
to abandonments & line realignments but mostly because RR's had begun to close
stations in tiny towns (or the town had 'died'). I know by going thru old Iowa
RR Commissioners' Reports that the CB&Q (& other RR's) closed stations in towns
of as few as 16 people. Either the town was a 'spec' town that never developed,
had been a fuel stop now bypassed, a mining town that died, etc. I tried to
weed
out name changes (such as Dunleith, IL becoming East Dubuque and Sharps, IA
becoming Sharpsburg) but a few of these may just be that: name changes. Also a
very few reappeared in later yrs. Note too there are a number of 'crossings' -
I
checked the Tables and indeed train times were shown for these 'Stations' which
is normally only shown for Passenger tables if it's a stop. I've seen old
photos
of such Xings with people around so apparently when trains were far more
frequent and the
ONLY way to travel more than a couple miles, even Xings in the middle of
nowhere
would have stops (need to get comparable old TT's for Milw, RI, Wabash, etc to
see if their branches also had stops at these crossings and at somewhat
comparable times). Note: even as early as 1900 a couple stations are shown in
the index but with note they are 'freight only' & not shown in the TT proper.
The request was made so when coming across old photos of depot's, etc but NO RR
named, you know which might be CB&Q, esp. if town was only served by the Q or
its predecessors.
Adelia, NE
Afton Jct., IA
Anthen, IA
Athol, WY
Aztec, SD
Bethany Jct., IA
Blanding, IL
Bricklyn, IL
Carthage Jct., IL
CB&KC Jct, IA
C&A Jct, IL
Charme, WI
Cinncinnati, IA
Clarinda Jct. IA
Clark City, MO
Cliola, IL
Collins, NE
Como, WY
Conway Crossing, IA
Corona, CIO
Cream Ridge, MO
CRI&P Crossing, IA
Cuivre Jct, MO
Darren, IA
Dumont, WY
E. Creston, IA
E. Hannibal, MO
E. Leavensworth, MO
Eric, NE
Erskine, WY
Ft. Custer, MT
Geneva, IL
Griffins, IL
Groves, MO
Guinn, IA
Haynes, IA
Highland, KS
Highwood, WI
Hillsdale, IA
Holdredge Jct, NE
Ives, NE
IV&N Crossing, IL
IV&N Jct, IL
Irondale, CO
Krum, IA
Lake, MO
Maple Lake, MO
Marcus, IL
Marrietta, SD
McDill, IA
Middle Lock, IA
Mills, IA
No. Oswego, IL
Osceola Jct, IA
Oakland, WI
Parkman, WY
Patterson, IA
Pratt, WY
Richfield, MO
Rick, MO
Riverside, CO
R.I. Crossing, IL
Round House, MO
Russell, IA
S & G Ranch, SD
St. Peters, MO
Schramm, CO
Seth, KS
Smiths, IA
So. Aurora, IL
Southdown, MT
South Latan, MO
Sugar Lake, MO
Sunflower, NE
Texas Jct, MO
Tunis, IA
Warsaw, NE
Whitebreast, IA
Gerald
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