[CBQ] Re: Depot interior question

["Meredith Johnston" <mjohn@ncn.net>]

Pete:

Thanks for the informative and entertaining answer to my question about how the 
"Dirty Side" of the Chariton Branch got its name. 

To answer your question. No, I didn't know any of the agents on the Chariton 
Branch. For some reason my folks went to Lineville, on the CRI&P's "Golden 
State Route" more frequently than Leon or Garden Grove on the Q so my early 
exposure was to the Rock Island. 

The folks must have been latent railfans in that a trip to Lineville frequently 
involved a trip to the depot. especially if there was any train activity taking 
place. It was only a half block from the business dirstict. The depots in Leon 
and Garden Grove were much farther from the business district and with less 
railroad activity than Lineville.

Again thanks for sharing.

Meredith Johnston
Spencer, IA


> 
> Did you perhaps know any of the agents on the Chariton Branch???   In going 
> through some 1980's Burlngton Company magazines and looking in the 
> retirements section I noticed the name D.V.Bacon had retired from the Leon 
> agency...Don was an extra operator on the St. Joe Division in the 1950's

> I'll be glad to handle any additonal questions with additional facts and 
> "made up" information.
> 
> Pete




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