Re: [CBQ] Re: La Crosse WI

["Leo qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I was in La Crosse for the CNWHS meet this month and followed the old 
main,downtown line from the south to where It is now stubbed just north of the 
brewery,which appears to be the only active customer. I was looking for the 
switches set in the street with the steel plate covers over the throw 
handles.They have been removed. 

Kind of an interesting twisty route the line takes. Very interesting thru the 
hospital grounds.

Leo Phillipp

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> On May 30, 2014, at 8:08 AM, "baton580@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> 
> wrote:
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> Michael,
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> 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.
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> Hopefully others will have more exact dates.
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> Bob Plaehn
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