[CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

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John,

Thanks for sending the reference to the Trains articles.  I should be able to 
find them.

Best,
Bill

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
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> Â Â Kalmbach put out a Burlington photo album in the late 40's or early 50's 
> showing the Quincy yards with a Q passenger train behind E-5's coming off of 
> the old bridge and showing the "bay" bridge. BTW, I know a man, who as a 
> teenager, rode his pony across the bay bridge!
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> Phil Weibler is really your "go to guy" on this matter..Maybe he will come on 
> and enlighten you guys. 
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> It does seem to me that I recall seeing an article in TRAINS sometime shortly 
> after the new West Quincy Station and the new trackage were put into 
> operation.  It detailed the whole thing as to how it was orignally and the 
> somewhat bizzare maneuvers a train had to go through to get from the 
> Brookfield sub, across the river and through Quincy...Check TRAINS, maybe 
> sometime in late 53 or early 54..seems there were detailed maps and verbal 
> descriptions as to what the operation was. 
> 
> Pete





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