RE: [CBQ] Rerouting EPB & TCZ on CGW

[Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>]

The entire line inc. (Winston tunnel) from Oelwein to St. Charles, IL was in 
use til a yr after C&NW absorption of CGW (absorbed in "68 so line abandoned 
"69?)  I have a booklet at home on the tunnel (reputedly haunted & also full of 
poison ivy at one end).  "Five motors" (Q E units) would not have been a 
problem exhaust-wise as CGW regularly ran up to 6-8 older F units on this line 
esp. when pulling a train of meat-laden reefers.  But then they had dropped 
passenger service by late 60's so only exposed people would have been conductor 
& read brakeman but there too a saving grace was CGW ran 150+ car long 
freights.  I.E. engines long out of the tunnel before the Pennsy style 'cabin' 
cabooses went in.
 

Gerald  
 



To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: mmatalis@sprynet.com
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:18:28 -0600
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Rerouting EPB & TCZ on CGW


  



The CGW tunnel did not have a central ventilation shaft. I've seen 
photographs of it's west end showing a building called a ventilating 
house, so they may be just pulled air in one end out and out the 
other. The photos date from 1966 and the building looks like it had 
been out of service for quite some time.

Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis
Downers Grove IL
mmatalis@sprynet.com

                                          

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