Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Often things sometimes do not make sense when looking back at history
Steve

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From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line

 



Steve,

Thanks.  Interesting that it continued to be part of Ottumwa with no physical connection to the rest of that division.

Duncan

 

----- Original Message -----

From: STEVEN HOLDING

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:24 PM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line

 

14.59 miles from Birmingham to Batavia was abandon 10/12/39
6.39 Miles Birmingham to Stockport  was abandon 5/14/56
Ft. Madison to Stockport abandon 6/1/80
The track chart of 1/6/60 shows it as Ottumwa Div.
Working the Ottumwa Job in the Dispatchers office in Cicero we would put out a work extra for it every day at Ft. Madison
Also so St. Joe to Humeston and we ran the branches out of Creston, Villisca and Red Oak.  and Albia to Des Moines for three years with the Wabash(NW) the other three years.
Steve in SC

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From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Peavine/K-line

 

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

 

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From: Sam Cook

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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
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Duncan Cameron wrote:
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> 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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