[CBQ] Re: [BRHSlist] Pawpaw illinois

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

To continue the discussion of when the line segment from Baker to Burgess Jct ceased operating I'll add the following.

Prior to the trestle fire,going back to at least 1899(BRT FILES),there was a job that operated from Mendota to Ottawa or vice versa depending on the time period via Burgess and Earlville called the Roustabout. Prior to the ' 32 Paw Paw-Shabbona abandonment it also went to Shaboona each night on that route. Yup,it's all in the file. And a lot more that may become an article someday.

The Eola Rdhse loco assignment book provides the date of the first "Roustabout" starting from Eola to Ottawa as Monday June 3,1957. At the same time the job out of Mendota stopped being listed in the ETT. This job went to work in the evening,usually after the Fox River way freights return. The Fox was on duty at 5 or 5:30 back then. It also,logically, used the Foxes power. During these years both jobs had two- three geeps. At first the job was called an extra Fox River but by August it was listed as the roustabout.

Pg 16 of BB51 shows pg 97 of the Roundhouse book for 6 days in Sept '57.

Leo Phillipp

Amazed at the drop in the number of sand trains on the old Fox River branch recently.

On Dec 22, 2015, at 9:26 AM, STEVEN HOLDING sholding@sbcglobal.net [BRHSlist] <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Bob

I know what you mean.  That Info I put up is from a list put out by BNSF years ago.  And like the line to Baker for the elevator a lot of switch tracks that were earlier branch lines they do not show.  I went thru and shot the grain elevators on one of my last trips up that way as we often stay at the resort in Norway(Sheridan)

It is kind of like with the Alley Tracks.  When did they come out or were at least stopped running on. And the most important industry along the Alley.  "John's Hobby Shop"

Steve

On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:21 AM, "qutlx1@aol.com [BRHSlist]" <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Bob,

There's a picture of the move you describe in Olmsteds book Trail of the Zephyrs. L Kennedy liked to ask his rear brakeman how he would make this move given the track layout.

Leo Phillipp

On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:12 PM, amtrak347@aol.com [BRHSlist] <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Steve-

According to your track alignment charts, Baker (MP13.72) to ALMOST Burgess Junction was "retired December, 1958 per AFE #70827".  Possibly your 11/15/1958 date is the "Out-of-Service" date due to the trestle fire.  I'm uncertain as to the meaning of "retired"; does that mean "dismantled"?  Maybe Glen Haug can help us with that.  I do know for a fact that the east switch of the north "leg" of the wye at Burgess Junction (MP 66.41 on 9th Subdivision) and approximately one mile northwest of that point was still in service as of 4/5/1969 when I made a student trip on the Fox River Wayfeight*.  (That segment shows on your 1/25/1965 alignment chart.)  We picked-up a box car of grain and spotted two empties at the elevator at end-of-track also known as Serena-Somonauk County Highway (IL 2).  That grain elevator still exists today and can be seen on "googlemaps" of that area.

(*- Engr. Benoit/Condr. Fredericks [FYI, Leo])

Bob Campbell in OK

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