Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line

[Sam Cook <trains@sjcook.com>]

Sorry, I do not have any further info.
Clipping from Ottumwa Courier was in my Dad's collection.

Sam Cook, Milan, MO
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Duncan Cameron wrote:
>
>
> Sam, that's exactly the time frame I'm talking about!  I think I even 
> recognize the pictures from Michael's book.  Do you know about any change to 
> the divisional assignment?
> Duncan
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Sam Cook <mailto:trains@sjcook.com>
>     *To:* CBQ@yahoogroups.com <mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:30 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line
>
>     If I may interject............
>     http://sjcook.com/trains/cbq/misc/peavine.gif
>
>     Sam Cook, Milan, MO
>     ===================
>
>     Duncan Cameron wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > I just purchased Michael Johns book on Iowa's Peavine and it raised a 
> question. It states that when parts of the K-line between Keokuk and Mt. 
> Pleasant were abandoned in
>      > 1932, the remaining portion, now accessed from the Peavine, became 
> part of the Ottumwa division. In 1939, the portion of the Peavine from 
> Birmingham to Batavia was
>      > abandoned, severing its connection with the Q main across Iowa. Can 
> anyone confirm -- perhaps from an ETT from 1939 or the early 1940s -- that as 
> of that abandonment the
>      > Peavine became part of the Hannibal division since it could then only 
> be accessed out of Ft. Madison?
>      > Duncan Cameron
>


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