Hello Bob and group. I worked this line in the 1970's. There was a hand
throw switch at the East end of Elmwood where the Buda line joined the Peoria
main. There was a operator on duty all three tricks at Elmwood depot which was
about 1/4 mile west of the Jct switch. At Yates City there was a wye just east
of the depot where a southbound train could pull around the wye towards Canton.
There was a short setout track on the wye and another just south of the wye
called the Mine storage which held about 80 cars. There was yard limits at
Yates City and at Elmwood (from 1974 BN TT, Y symbol in the signs column), and
at one time yard limits extended from West Yates City to East Elmwood
continious. If I recall the crews called the Elmwood operator about 2 miles
out and got permission to pull down to the switch (there was a county highway
that you blocked while doing this), and come down to the depot under the yard
limit rule. There was no
evidence of any interlocking at the Elmwood Jct switch.
By the late 1970's, Lombardville was as far north as the line went and the only
operator on the branch was at Wyoming. One job ran from Yates City up the Buda
line to service the Sherwood (Stonefort), mine north of Wyoming. A 2nd job ran
from Yates City to Canton and they switched the Norris mine. The Canton road
switcher switched The International Harvestor plant, pulled and set cars from
the TP&W Transfer and switched the Buckheart mine at Dumferline. Twice a week
a Rushville-Fairview turn would be run out of Galesburg to service the towns
south of Canton. If i recall the job paid over 200 miles and the crews usually
arranged to tie-up at Fairview because Dead Heads were paid by rail miles and
fairview was about 52 rail miles from Galesburg (and only about 32 highway
miles).
Bud Linroth
--- On Thu, 10/27/11, herrick@krausonline.com <herrick@krausonline.com> wrote:
From: herrick@krausonline.com <herrick@krausonline.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Elmwood Interlocking
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 1:17 AM
The Buda/Rushville branchline included a short leg from Elmwood to Yates
City on the Peoria/Galesburg line. I'm looking at an employee timetable from
1952 and there is no mention of interlocking protection at Elmwood. I realize
that this was dark territory, but how was this junction protected?
Bob Herrick
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