Paul, Steve, and Bob,
I worked this line in the early 1970's and we handled mostly empty coal racks
to
the Stonefort (we called it Sherwood,) mine pulled the loads and returned to
Yates City where the job was headquartered. Most of the coal went to
Galesburg but some went to Peoria.
In the middle 1970's the BN installed about 10 miles of recycled ribbon rail
between Duncan and Wyoming. In the late 1970's the BN started proceedings to
abandon the line but needed to show a loss on the line. They decided to
rebuild
a wooden trestle bridge just north of Wyoming and soon the company was able to
show a loss and the line was abandoned.
Prior to 1970, the C&NW came in from the north and switched the Stonefort mine
too. The track between Elmwood and Duncan was 10 MPH and the ribbon-rail
section was 25 MPH. I remember during the bad winter around 1978 they ran the
old wedge type snow plow up the branch and we got stuck many times due to not
being able to build up any speed to hit the drifts. The section had to come
dig
us out by hand many times. When we were leaving Monica (where the ATSF
Transcon
crossed), we hit a drift just north of the elevator track switch several times
with no luck. The Road Foreman and Trainmaster went into the elevator to use
the telephone and came out with instructions to remove all of us from the
engine. They then proceeded towards the drift and suddenly the smoke was
belching out of the stacks. I don't know at what speed they hit the drift but
they returned with just the engine. We got a cab ride home and they ordered up
a rotary snow plow from out west.
I only made it to Lombardville once and Bradford twice. Crews were not sent
beyond Lombardville starting in about 1971-72.
R. W. "Bud' Linroth
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From: herrick01 <herrick@krausonline.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, March 30, 2011 7:55:30 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: The Elmwood branch at Buda
Paul & Steve,
Per the chief engineer in 1940, the Buda roundhouse had two stalls each 82'6"
in
length.
Bob Herrick
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@...> wrote:
>
> Paul
> I put the track charts for Buda in the File section under track charts
> AU 85 is the Mainline side
> GT 80 is the Galesburg Div Side(Branch)
> Yes there was a roundhouse there but I have no idea what size. Turntable was
> a
>
> 63.75 ft deck girder air crab table built in Burlington in 1882 moved to Buda
>in
>
> 1902
> line abandon south in 1979 to Lombardville
> Line was used to move coal from mine to the Mainline(Galesburg to Aurora)
> Steve in SC
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Paul Evans <paul@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 10:13:45 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] The Elmwood branch at Buda
>
>
> I am hoping that somebody can answer a few question to help the
> detailing of my model railway.
>
> My modelling is progressing quite nicely, with the depot more or less
> complete.
>
> I have been studying the photographs (p54, & P55) in Michael J Spoor
> book CB&Q in colour - volume 4 and it shows that there was a small yard
> off the Elmwood Branch.
>
> My questions are
> 1. How many roads were there in the yard (including the branch line)
> 2. Did at least 1 track run round the shed and rejoin the branch line
> 3. Was the shed railway property and what was it used for.?
> 4. What was the yard used for? (the photo shows MOW equipment)
>
> My photos from 2008 show that the area was being used for storing of
> track etc.
>
> 1 last question,
>
> When was the wooden bridge over the main line, just west of the depot,
> replaced by the modern steel & concrete one.
>
> Many thanks to all those who have responded to my previous questions.
>
> Paul Evans.
>
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>
>
>
>
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