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Hello all, I am a resident of Platteville, WI, who grew up traveling through Prairie du Chien with my parents on family vacations to the Twin Cities. Combined with trips on the pre-Amtrak Empire Builder to visit grandparents in eastern WA, this experience cemented my interest in trains. Now I am constructing an HO layout representing PdC at the time of the CBQ to BN transition. A visit to the PdC library put me in contact with its director, Nancy K. Ashmore. She responded to my inquiry about maps showing CBQ/BN trackage in 1970 with these words:
I am not finding anything in our records - although I did find a lovely map of a community plan developed in 1967, most of which obviously never happened. It does show multiple sidings on St. Feriole Island, but no indication of an actual depot, and I don't know if it indicates where the track actually went, or proposed changes to the track layout. I have attached the community plan PDF to this message. It shows the CBQ trackage (as well as the MILW on St. Feriole Island). I would be grateful for any feedback on the accuracy of the CBQ tracks as drawn. In particular, the wye track north of the depot caught my eye. Regards, Karland Kilian __._,_.___ Attachment(s) from minotrrman@yahoo.com [CBQ] | View attachments on the web 1 of 1 File(s) Posted by: minotrrman@yahoo.com __,_._,___ |