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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Floating Equipment
From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:58:42 -0800 (PST)
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John and Gerald
Thanks John for pointing out your already work with photos of the "Q Navy"
In the ICC Valuation report Account 23 Wharves and Docks it lists  several 
docks 
on the Chicago River and tributary canals, the dock at Metropolis and small 
wharf at Peru, Ill.  

It would be nice to find some info on the Peru docks and gangs stationed there 
as there were swing bridges with one at La Salle (Illinois River)  and two at 
Ottawa(Illinois River and I&M Canal)  Just after the Report was put out the 
Channelization Project on the Illinois River forced the Railroads and towns to 
rebuild the bridges to allow larger(taller) boats thru.  So the work was 
finished(except for maintenance)on the Ohio River Bridge and the equipment 
would 
have moved to the Illinois River to rebuild those bridges.  I haven't found 
when 
the I&M Canal swing bridge was rebuilt to the present fill but the canal was 
filled with WPA labor in the 1932-35 era.
Then there was the coal docks at Beardstown and north of there.  To say nothing 
of the continual maintenance on the Mississippi River bridges.
What is of most interest is the MOW car No. 214003  Concrete Mixer Car.  What 
did it look like and was it used to put in the piers of the elevation at 
Aurora.  All photos I have seen show the piers up and the top being put on.  

Steve in SC




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From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 25, 2010 12:09:22 PM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Floating Equipment

  
Gerald
Most of this floating equipment was located at Metropolis, Illinois. This was 
covered in BB #35. Before the Metropolis bridge was completed, the Q used the 
IC's car ferry, the"W.B. Duncan"  (page 167) on a per car fee basis with a 
minimum of fifty cars per day, between Metropolis and Paducah. The "Isabella" 
was a steam powered tugboat, that was the "switch engine" at the barge 
dock.(page 182). She was replaced later by a gasoline powered tugboat (page 
185). The barges were used to haul ties off the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers 
to the docks at Metropolis, to be carried by rail to the tie plants at 
Metropolis or Galesburg. The stern wheeler steam boat the "Northstar" (page 
184) was used as a tow boat. The diver's boat was here too, as the "slips" 
sometimes derailed underwater. The floating pile driver was used to maintain 
the 
"fender" pilings at the dock. Some of the smaller craft were used by the paint 
gang. They had a "safety man" in a boat under
the bridge when they were working (page 170). So you see Southern Illinois was 
a 
lot more than coal mines! 
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Floating Equipment
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 8:39 AM

I beleive the Isabella was the carferry @ Metropolis and many of the barges 
were 
used in conjunction orf working on bridges on navigable rivers and the several 
piers/wharfs Q had on Chicago River.  (grain operations, etc)

Could be a heckuva of an article if we can get some photos, stories and more 
data.  Tks Charlie!

Gerald 

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From: cvlk@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:54:37 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] Floating Equipment

  

Here are excerpts from the ICC Valuation Report for the CB&Q regarding Floating 
Equipment.
As you can see, the CB&Q had a little navy at one time!!
Charlie Vlk

ICC BUREAU OF VALUATION CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY 

FLOATING EQUIPMENT 

Length Width Depth Built 

Steamer "Isabella" 103' 21'-6" 6' 1880 rblt 1903 purchased secondhand 

Barge #14 65'-7" 26' 4' unknown purchased secondhand 
wood construction 

Barge #20 65'-7" 26' 4' unknown purchased secondhand 

WORK EQUIPMENT 

Barge - Wood Construction 

No # 32' 8' 2'-9" unknown 
No # 32' 8' 2'-9" unknown 
5 60' 19'-10" 4'-4" 1910 
6 60' 19'-10" 4'-4" 1910 
8 & 9 1912 
102 Dimensions Unknown 1915 
204 & 205 60' 19'-10" 4'-4" 1913 
No # 32' 8' 2'-8" unknown 
No # 32' 11-10" 2'-6" unknown 
No # 32' 11-10" 2'-6" unknown 
No # 32' 11-10" 2'-6" unknown 
No # 32' 11-10" 2'-6" unknown 
110 Dimensions Unknown 1915 
103 & 104 Dimensions Unknown 1915 
111 Dimensions Unknown 1915 

Diving Boat & Outfit 

No # 20'-9" 10' 2' 1910 

???ll Boat & Outfit 

No # 51'-6" 14' 4'-4" 1914 

Tow Boat - Wood Hull 

2 54' 12' 2'-8' 1910 
201 72' 16' 4' 1923 

Hydraulic Dredge Boat 

1 119' 30' 5'-8" 1910 
7 119' 30' 5'-8" 1912 
20 148'-10" 42' 7'-6" 1913 

Pile Driver Boat 

No # Dimensions Unknown 1910 

Gasoline Launch 

No # 18' 4' Unknown 15 HP 1910 
No # 21' 4' Unknown 18HP 1913 

Pontoons - Wood Construction 

11-18 36'-6" 11'-10" 2'-6" 1910 
19-23 36'-6" 11'-10" 2'-6" 1910 
25-37 36'-6" 11'-10" 2'-6" 1912 
105 30' 10' 2' 1915 
108 & 109 30' 10' 2' 1915 
206-220 40' 16' 3'-6" 1913 

Skiff - Wood Construction 

No # 18' 4' Unknown Unknown 
No # 22' 5' Unknown Unknown 
No # 20' 4' Unknown Unknown 
No # 18' 4' Unknown Unknown 
4 Dimensions Unknown 1910 
10 Dimensions Unknown 1912 
203 Dimensions Unknown 1913 

Scow - Wood Construction 

No # 16' 4' Unknown Unknown 
38 20' 4' Unknown Unknown 

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