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Group, I know the Exposition Flyer detoured through Quincy and on to Kansas City in 1944 because of flooding upriver at Burlington (picture of the train at Quincy in the May 2016 Milepost 206 CB&Q calendar) . I would assume the same thing happened in 1952 with the California Zephyr . I'm at work and can't go through my Quincy Route book from last year to see if any visual proof is in it. Erik On Friday, January 27, 2017 3:25 PM, "'Dave Lotz' Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I received this email from John Wegner 3 weeks ago and
have not been able to answer it. If anyone on the list has any ideas, I'm
sure he would like to hear from you. When responding, do so to the CBQ
group and to him at 47builder@gmail.com.
Dave -----Original Message-----
From: John Wegner [mailto:47builder@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 9:08 PM To: Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net Subject: 1952 flooding Hi Dave,
The book "Kansas Curve" by Robert P. Olmsted has a photo of the eastbound
California Zephyr at Lawrence, Kansas while detouring on the Union Pacific
during the Iowa/Nebraska flooding of April 1952. I was wondering what
route it took east of Kansas City. The existing CB&Q KC-Chicago
mainline, which at that time would have taken it thru Liberty and Cameron,
MO? Does anyone have any info on this re-route, which supposedly lasted
about a week in 1952. My N scale club meets in a building in Liberty next
to what's left of the former Burlington mainline.
John Wegner
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