[CBQ] Re: La Crosse WI

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Michael,
 

 I can't give you the exact dates from memory, but the downtown line was the 
original Q line through Lacrosse. Sometime in the late 1930s or 1940s, the new 
east side bypass line was constructed which included a new passenger station.  
After that point, through freights and passenger trains then used the new 
bypass with only local switch jobs going downtown to serve the industries 
including G. Heileman brewing and others.  This timing is very approximate as I 
have seen pictures of the Twin Zephyr on the old line taken in 1939.  The old 
downtown line is still there in some parts, coming in from the south to at 
least as far as the brewery complex.  I can not speak of any remnants on the 
north end.
 

 Hopefully others will have more exact dates.
 

 Bob Plaehn