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From: "Dave Lotz" <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:21:44 -0400
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[Attachment(s) from Dave Lotz included below]

Phil,

 

I’ve pulled up a couple of Mapquest satellite images and in the Close-up, I’ve marked what appears to be where the connecting line was prior to 1947.  The Current Satellite shows the curves headed up the bluff that Phil speaks of.


Dave

 

-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Philip Weibler
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 2:29 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

 

 

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.

 


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