[CBQ] Re: Passenger Train Detours Over the Q

["Verne Brummel" <ldb53jmb55@charter.net>]

Tom, I might be wrong, but I don't think that happened. Unlike the CB&Q, the 
MILW had several detour options over its own lines. MILW lines from 
Milwaukee-Horicon-Portage, Watertown-Madison-Portage, 
Chicago-Walworth-Madison-Portage, etc. were used. If needed, the Hiawathas 
could also be detoured on MILW rails from Chicago-Savanna-Dubuque-River 
Junction (LaCrosse). Amtrak today, of course, uses the old CB&Q for occasional 
detours for its "Empire Builder", but this is because much of the former detour 
MILW trackage is either abandoned (Cambria-Portage) or has track with low speed 
limits.

Verne Brummel,
Fitchburg,WI

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "thommack" <thommack@...> wrote:
>
> The latest copy of Classic Trains has a photo of the combined EB/NCL 
> detouring over the Milwaukee Road in 1967 from Chicago to La Crosse because 
> of the CB&Q bridge being out at Galena Jct. While this would be great for a 
> Milwaukee modeler wanting to run the EB/NCL, my question is this:
> 
> During the 1967-1969 period can anyone recall the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha 
> detouring over the C&I through Oregon and Savanna because of a bridge being 
> out, flood, derailment, etc,? Or any other non-Q passenger train?
> 
> Tom Mack
> Cincinnati, OH
>




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