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Hello Pete and All - I have discovered - rather late in life - that if I just keep my yap shut the people who actually know something will come forward with the needed information. When my family moved to Quincy in the summer of 1952 we rented a house at Sixth and Locust - way in the northwest corner of town, close to the Q mainline. Many a night I was lulled to sleep by the sounds of double-headed steam locomotives blasting out of town with the drag for Galesburg. The mainline grade out of Quincy was steep, but short. Coming over the river bridge and the upper bay bridge the main was running pretty much straignt east. It then made a sharp curve to the north and climbed up the face of the bluff - the numbers given are a rise of 60' to 90' in a run of (?) less than a mile. At the top the main made a sharp curve to the east - northeast and headed for Galesburg. The "new" line at Quincy comes right off the top of the bluff and stays high until it gets to Missouri. The current connection out of the yard makes a steep climb up to the main and a sharp curve to the west - almost a mirror image of the original layout north of Carthage Junction. Now, I have absolutely no documentation, but logic would say that when the yard was built in West Quincy in 1947 provision was made to allow freight trains to run directly through to Galesburg. I was not aware of any changes or new connections made at Carthage Junction in 1952-'53 and, yes, I was there. Rode around the wye on an 05 in '52. PAW We return now to our regularly scheduled programming. From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, April 13, 2012 7:52:54 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy
Phil Weibler is really your "go to guy" on this matter..Maybe he will come on and enlighten you guys.
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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