Bob: We delivered the Rock Island cars to a small yard just East of the depot
near what the Rock called "the malt house". Most of it was hoppers for the
Pabst Brewery at Peoria Heights. In the early 1980's when I worked at Peoria,
we had just taken over the Rock Island operations and the Rock island switchman
were given prior rights on the jobs that went up to the Pabst brewery.
Bud Linroth
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From: herrick01 <herrick@krausonline.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 8:22:52 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Peoria Interchange Question
Thanks so much for the response, Bud. Do you recall where you dropped cars for
the Rock Island? The reprint of interchange traffic from the BRHS showed closed
to 10,000 cars delivered to the Rock at Peoria in 1947 and nearly 7,000 cars in
1948. Any idea what the Q would transfer to the Rock in such quantity at Peoria?
Bob
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, ralph linroth <wcman8@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Bob I worked Peoria Yard for about 1 year in the early 1980's and I
> was
> the Union Local Chairman for Peoria Yard from 1979-1989. The BN crews (and
> Q
> crews before them) had agreements with the TP&W. P&PU and Rock Island that
> each
>
> road would deliver their own cars to the other road. The designated set out
>for
>
> the TP&W was at their yard in East Peoria. We would take the P&PU cars with
> us
>
> and set them out on the wye yard on the North side of the River bridge they
> called it the "90" yard. We then went across the river and delivered to the
> TP&W at their yard at East Peoria.
>
> I remember the TP&W Yard because you had to line the switch back for the Main
> after pulling your cut in but when you threw the switch it put a derail back
> on
>
> about 5 car lengths further in on the track. Many a new Peoria switchman had
> a
>
> car on the ground when they were not paying attention on where the derail
> was.
> I hope this helps
>
> R. W. "Bud" Linroth
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: herrick01 <herrick@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 8:12:30 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Peoria Interchange Question
>
>
> I understand that the Q interchanged directly with the TP&W at Peoria,
> especially perishable traffic to be expedited eastward. Since the TP&W had
> trackage rights on the Q to get through Peoria, and operated through the Q's
> Peoria yard daily, would the TP&W have picked up the perishables at the Q
> yard
> on its way to and from or would the labor agreements require the Q to deliver
> the cars to the TP&W (at East Peoria)?
>
>
> Bob Herrick
>
>
>
>
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