Re: [CBQ] Re: Fulton,Il question

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Dick
Rodger on the Milw Road running from Savanna to Ebner.  and then we also had the RI running from Orion to Colona.  And a local use to run around Alpha.  And of course the road freight from Galesburg thru Barstow and over the Rock Island then up the Dri Line to Clinton.  It was a pretty hot job pre-CTC.  It was busy enough we use to back up the branch at Garden Plain to make meets on occasion.  Course this was a no-no because only one end of the train could see the meet.  But then we use to be able to do things to get the job done.  One of the reasons I retired.
And the house is going up.  Making real progress
Steve in SC

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From: ralph linroth <wcman8@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, December 8, 2011 5:59:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Fulton,Il question

 

Dick  The Northern Illinois Rail Road built a 7.2 section between Thomson and Fulton in August, 1865.  It completed the 21,7 mile section between Fulton and Port Byron in January of 1866.  The Western Union Railroad consolidated with the Northern Illinois Rail Road on January 17, 1866.  The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway acquired the consolidated Company  in 1869.

The Chicago, Burlington & Nothern which was a subsiduary of the CB&Q built their line from Savanna to Fulton in 1886 and ran beside the Milw from Fulton to the west end of Savanna Yard.  In Thomson the 2 depots were less than 1 block apart.

You are right about passenger trains 47 and 48 and 51 and 52 running from Savanna through Fulton across the Dri Line to Rock Island and Barstow and the pea vine into Galesburg.  Page 153 of the pea vine book has a schedule from 1943 showing these stations.  Bud Linroth

--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Richard Eisfeller <bigeee@trainvideos.com> wrote:

From: Richard Eisfeller <bigeee@trainvideos.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Fulton,Il question
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 4:31 PM

 

Steve, didn't the Q run over the Milwaukee line from Ebner into Fulton for a few years.  Also I belive that the Galesburg to Savanna passenger train ran on the Fulton to Ebner line until it was dropped in the 1950s.

Dick Eisfeller

Who grew up in nearby Mount Carroll but doesn't remember a lot from that era

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