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Hi Bill,
There are several things to take into account here. The obvious cut
that can be seen is the road down to the landing and boat house. From my
recollections of exploring year ago, the roadbed for the wye was to the north of
the road, as I have marked in yellow. Remember
that the wye has been gone for almost 60 years and the trees are so large, you
can't even see the small lake. The cut in the trees to the north of where
I have marked is due to the bluff curving into the ravine.
I don't think the mainline right of way has changed much
since it was originally laid in 1869.
I forgot to attach the alignment chart for this segment of track, which
does show Cascade at MP 219.
Dave
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Dave
when you blow that picture up four or fivr times there is a
different cut through the trees coming from the tracks going to the
south side of cascade bridge is this the actual old right way?
Bill Ewinger
--- On Wed, 6/20/12, Duncan Cameron
<d.cameron@sympatico.ca> wrote:
From:
Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [CBQ]
Waycar Brake Whistles
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday,
June 20, 2012, 4:18 PM
Thanks for the images Dave!
Never an end to what you can
learn.
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
10:13 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Waycar Brake
Whistles [3 Attachments]
Duncan,
Cascade, or
Cascade Landing as it is known in Burlington, is at the end of
a ravine that ends with a small, cascading waterfall, hence the
name. Before the MTZ was placed into service, the Q had
to figure out how to turn the MTZ at Burlington for its return trip
to STL. There is not enough real estate near the depot, nor
anywhere else in the downtown area for a wye because of the
surrounding hills. There was an existing wye at the West
Burlington shops, but taking the train set there would have taken
too much time. Someone figured out that this ravine, about a
mile and a half south of the depot, was deep enough, and wide enough
that a wye could be constructed there. Attached is a photo
that Hank Kuepper took of the MTZ being turned on the
wye. BB23 has another showing the Pioneer Zephyr being turned
here also. I would assume that the 9902 would have also
used the wye when running from Chicago to Hannibal via
Burlington.
I've also attached images
showing the location in relationship to the depot and bridge,
and another showing where I believe the tracks used to
be.
Dave
Okay, have to ask: where is
Cascade? Not a name I can remember hearing
before.
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 20,
2012 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Waycar
Brake Whistles
Closer to a mile and a half.
Ken Martin
On Jun 19, 2012, at 8:30 PM, archie hayden wrote:
After the Mark Twain Zephyr was turned at Cascade they
made a backup move from there to the stub track just west of
the two mains on the south end of the depot. There were
two stub tracks there and the brakeman was supposed to stop
the train before bumping the bumping post. One time it
didn't quite get stopped in time and the tail end suffered a
dent right beside Mark Twain's face. He never heard the
last of that move. That back up move was probably over a
mile. Archie
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