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Hello Duncan - Let's give this a try: Using the DeLORME Atlas & Gazetteer for Illinois (sorry, I don't have Missouri yet) and looking on the Missouri side of the river we find - less than two miles south of La Grange - a spur track going west and then hooking and going south. This spur appears to be a little over a mile long. The cartographic symbol for 'gravel pit or sandpit' appears twice in this area. This location is now the 'Wakonda State Park'. My guess is that the spur track and the working pits are gone, with the 'diggings' allowed to flood to create a wildlife area. Suppose we'll have to make a trip to Quincy when it cools off a little. ETTs for that line dated into the early 1950s should have some notation about that spur and a mainline switch. Seems I remember, back around 19aught53, talking to a crew that was going to run up from West Quincy toward La Grange with ballast cars. FWIW PAW From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, May 28, 2012 7:17:10 AM Subject: [CBQ] Lowrie, Missouri
Hi all!
Can anyone tell me anything about Lowrie
Missouri? It's listed on K-line timetables just north of West Quincy and
south of LaGrange.
It doesn't seem to have had an office and may have
been nothing more than a siding. I can't even find reference to a
community of that name.
Duncan Cameron
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