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Dave that is the time frame for Dads pictures of the Santa Fe here at Burlington and they were going to Denver on the CB&Q to get around the Flooding Bill Ewinger On Friday, January 27, 2017 4:49 PM, "Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: This would have been an interesting move as Q trains always used
the west entrance and exit to Kansas City Union Station. I would
think they made a station stop there once off the UP to get
Lincoln and Omaha passengers off so they could ride one of the
KC-Omaha-Lincoln trains to get close to home. It would also be
place to change crews. They then could backed the train out of
Union Station and then used the wye (which still is there) to
swing north on to Q track. According to the Joint CB&Q-Wabash
Employee Timetable from February 1 1953 all Q passenger trains ran
from Union Station through the Kansas City West Bottoms (still
recovering from the July 1951 flood) on joint CB&Q-Wabash
trackage from St. Louis Ave through an area what is locally called
the "Gooseneck" to cross the Hannibal Bridge through Ustick
interlocking to Birmingham where the Q mainline ran up to Liberty
Kearney and Cameron.
If it had been 6 months later after the KC Short-cut was open, it
would have been possible for a eastbound CZ detour to take the
route eastbound Wabash passenger trains took. This was east and
then northeast from Union Station on the Kansas City Terminal to
the joint Milwaukee/Rock Island Truman Bridge over the Missouri
River on the northeast side of Kansas City. There was connection
on from the joint MILW-RI trackage to Wabash main. This is east of
Birmingham but west of Maxwell where the cut-off joined the Wabash
main. This would of required a pilot crew to get to the Wabash
main, so I would doubt it was ever used in this way.
Bill HirtOn 1/27/2017 3:42 PM, Erik Spoonmore
spoony81@att.net [CBQ] wrote:
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