Re: [CBQ] Re: Foliage & Q sites as you drive to La Crosse Meet (Tunnels)

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Split Rock tunnel on the Rock Island near La Salle, IL.

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On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Rick Woods rwoods613@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Sorry to highjack the thread, but regarding the statement "the IC tunnel @ E. Dbq (1 of only 2 RR tunnels in IL, both used by the Q)"

There are a few more than 2 tunnels in Illinois.  Also, what was the 2nd tunnel that the Q used besides E. Dubuque?

Not counting the Chicago Tunnel System covered by CERA Bulletin #135 "The Chicago Tunnel Story" by Bruce Moffat, here is list of Illinois tunnels in addition to the E. Dubuque tunnel gleaned from Volume 4 of Carpenter's "A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946":

CGW tunnel at Winston (NW of Hanover)

IC tunnel #2 along the Edgewood Cutoff near Abbott and the longest tunnel in Illinois at 6,994 feet in length

IC tunnel #3 along the Edgewood Cutoff near Bristol

Big Four (CCC&StL) tunnel at Tunnel Hill 

There was also a tunnel at Kaolin (near Alto Pass) that was built by the narrow gauge Cairo and St. Louis, and became M&O's (and later GM&O's) line from St. Louis to the south.  The line was standard gauged in 1886 and the tunnel was daylighted sometime during M&O's ownership.  This info was gleaned from George Hilton's "American Narrow Gauge Railroads".

Rick Woods

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Posted by: Michael Woodruff <mwoodruff54@gmail.com>

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