Well Bob, I thought it might be there. But the thing that made me doubt it
is a dark spot back by the curve, on the right. Under magnification it looks
like a set of crossing lights, and the darkness of the bridge a road. I've
been there a number of times in the past 15 years, and will pass there
again in about two weeks. I'll take a closer look then, and check my slides
from there. And your correct on page 55. It's too bad there are mistakes
like that in so many books.
Gordon
> Gordon -
>
> You are correct; the photo on the bottom of page 83 is of a westbound
> train and true, it is west of Mendota - WAY west of Mendota - like MP
> 111.4, just west of Wyanet, IL. Photo was taken from the Wyanet-Walnut
> Road overhead bridge. Down in that grove of trees is the bridge over the
> Illinois and Mississippi Canal and around the left hand curve is the
> bridge over the Rock Island double track main to the Quad Cities (this is
> where the "new connection" will be located for Amtrak service to Iowa,
> maybe in the near future).
>
> While we are correcting "captions" in Vol. III, on page 55, bottom photo
> was taken at the Route 34 crossing in Wyanet and not Buda ("Wyanet Locker"
> to the left is a good hint).
>
> Maybe Glen Haug can "enlighten" us as to when the signal bridge at MP
> 110.8 was moved to MP 111.3? It would have to be after these pictures
> were taken in 1964.
>
> The second car in the page 83 photo will help me justify the purchase of
> 10 Weaver "O" scale troop sleeping cars, that I thought I purchased in
> error; they'll just have to be REA Express Reefers instead of the Q's BE-1
> storage mail troop kitchen cars.
>
>
> Bob Campbell
> Bixby, OK
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