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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:49:30 -0500
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February 3, 2015
 
Steve/Tom - I vaguely recall my Dad telling me that the Q leased several R Class locomotives to the Depot during World War Two. However, I have yet to come across any images showing such. Does anyone else in the Group have such an image? Best Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL 
 
In a message dated 2/3/2015 9:40:22 A.M. Central Standard Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:


Tom
A Bulletin article is in the works
I can tell you we use to move material from the IAAP at Burlington to Savanna.  Also it was used for material storage for years before being shut down.
Steve in SC


On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 9:05 AM, "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Tom,

The Savanna Army depot is North of town so it is in La Crosse div. territory. Trains and crew on that division served the base. Like most active army depots the carrier simply set out and picked up with the base engines doing the switching. The man you need to talk with with is Phil Weibler(PAW), as he was actually based there for some time during his military service.

Today, among other things there is a rail car storage operation, a car repair operation,etc using some of the miles of track inside the former base.

Leo

On Feb 3, 2015, at 7:05 AM, thommack@yahoo.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
The Savanna Army Depot was a huge 13,062-acre installation located about 11 miles north of Savanna. It was closed in 2000 and currently has three ex-Army RS4TC locomotives (now lettered for Riverport Railroad) and part of it is being used as an industrial park (the Savanna Depot Park). Considering the depot's size and number of locomotives I would have to believe there was a huge amount of traffic into and out of the depot in the late 1960's.

Can anyone provide any insight into how much traffic was going in and out of the depot in the late 1960's? Was it mostly boxcars? (It appears there is a huge area of bunkers in the depot for ammo storage.) Was there a dedicated wayfreight from Savanna to the depot or was it switched by the pickup out of Savanna?

Thanks in advance,

Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH




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