Re: [CBQ] Re: Last passenger service

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

Rupert:

My timetables are all from the early '50s, but I found this listing on eBay for a 1967 timetable.  If you enlarge the photos and squint a little bit, I think you can see that Marsland is still listed as a stop, but Belmont is not.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Oct-1967-Burlington-Northern-Passenger-Timetable-/201727888613?hash=item2ef7eb4ce5:g:jwAAAOSwsB9WEChp

msw

largofl

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:48 PM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

My thanks to all who replied, and for the story about it. Does anyone have a timetable for that period who can advise if Belmont and Marsland (between Hemingford and Crawford) were still shown at that time?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 19 December 2016 07:11
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Last passenger service

 

The incident where the westbound train was stopped at Hemingford and the passengers bused to their destinations occurred on August 14, 1969.  After public outcry over this, a court ordered that the trains be kept in operation for an additional ten days, so the last runs took place August 24, 1969.

 

msw

largofl

 

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:02 PM, runextra@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

If you are looking for the exact date be careful. I think the CB&Q stopped the last westbound #43 at Hemingford, NE (between Alliance and Crawford) when the train-off petition was granted and went into effect. Therefore that train never made it to Crawford on the "last day" that #43 departed Alliance. I don't know if the eastbound train #42 went thru Crawford before the petition was granted or not? But if not, then the "last day" for passenger train service at Crawford was actually one day earlier than train-off.

 

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

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