After I left some kind TM disposed of the bunk not too long before the depot
came down
Steve in SC
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From: archie hayden <kliner@mywdo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, September 16, 2010 9:08:38 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Depot interior question
Steve, looking back at sleeping accommodations that I made use of,
Lewiston,Ill in the freight room of the depot, Sterling, Ill. same
room, West Quincy, Mo back room of yard office, and Burlington, Ia.
second floor of depot, and also Keokuk, Ia second floor of old depot.
These quarters were provided for the enginemen but the train crew
often rode in on their coat tails.
On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:58 PM, STEVEN HOLDING wrote:
> As far as the bed goes they were quite often used by extra or relief
> operators
> between shifts at the end of a long commute.
> We had one in the locker room at Congress Park used by section and
> MOW. I used
> it for the two weeks when I first started there and had to be to
> COMPASS(computer) school in Cicero at 8AM. I would sleep on the
> train in (one
> day woke up when the train stopped at Cicero) attend school till
> noon then ride
> out to CP and sack out in the Locker Room. Frank(the agent) would
> come and get
> me when my shift started at 3PM till 11pm Sleep going home on the
> train to
> start all over again the next day(No Hours of Service account
> breaking in and
> not a train order job)
> Steve retired again in SC
> and time to sack out
>
> ________________________________
> From: Douglas Harding <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 7:14:40 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Depot interior question
>
> List last Saturday I had the opportunity to see the interior of the
> CB&Q depot
> in Milton, IA. In the freight room was a small room
> suspended from the rafters and accessible via a ladder fastened to
> the wall. I
> was told a bed was found in the room, but that
> would have been when the town took over the depot. The railroad
> stopped running
> in Milton in 1969, I have no idea when the town
> acquired the building.
>
> I have created a new photo album "Milton IA" and uploaded two photos
> I took of
> this room. I can get access and take additional
> photos if needed.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of what the room was used for and why it
> was built
> the way it was built?
>
> Doug Harding
> www.iowacentralrr.org
>
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