Glen and Larry The signal bridges you refer to may have protected the old
Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis line that crossed the Galesburg to Ottumwa
double main just west of the depot. Even though the trackage between Gerlaw
and
Roseville was removed in 1938, the Monmouth Yard engine still worked small
yards
on both sides of the Ottumwa main in the 1950's. I will contact the Ottumwa
Line old heads and see if anyone can shed further light on this.
R. W. "Bud" Linroth
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From: GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 3:18:48 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Monmouth - Was Morse lost language
Lenny:
What did you remember about the signal bridge (bridges) at Monmouth? Old maps
suggest that there may have originally been two (at MP 179.05 and 179.13). I
have verified the one at 179.13, but am not sure about the other one. Was it
still up in 1967? Thanks,
Glen Haug
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: wohrnell@kc.rr.com
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:56:41 +0000
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Morse lost language
Pete,
A little story about Morse, this happened in Monmouth. There were two operators
in the office when a pretty young lady came to the ticket window.
One operator tapped out a short message about the young ladies looks. She
smiled
and thanked him, turned out she was a Western Union operator.
We still had a wire between the Q and C&NW (M&StL) in 67 at Monmouth.
Lenny
I ended up with Paul's bugs after he passed away in January.
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