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Greetings Gentlemen, I have enjoyed your posts. In July of 1951, the Kaw River flooded and inundated the ATSF transcon and the Argentine Yard. For several days all ATSF transcon trains, freight and passenger, were annulled. Deals were struck with the CB&Q and the Frisco and trains began to move again. Most over the Q. This lasted approximately two weeks, whilst the road bed dried out and repairs made. Possibly longer. I don't think the dispatchers on the McCook division got much sleep during this emergency. Mark Sellars South Australia From: "Bill Ewinger bkewinger@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 5:11 Subject: Re: [CBQ] 1952 flooding My Dad Jim Ewinger has color Slides of a set "F" on a east bound Passenger train at the Burlington Depot there is slide of west bound coming into the station with the "PA". My Dad always has said they were running all the way to Denver do to Flooding in the Kansas City area. this was in the early 50"s Bill Ewinger On Monday, January 30, 2017 11:20 AM, "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: there were some..I don't know how many...ATSF trains running over the Q across Iowa and Nebraska during the 51 flood. Jim Christen and I were at Villisca IA on Friday and SAturday July13-14, 1951..We both have photos of Santa Fe trains running through Villsica...Also in AL Holck's "Hub of Burlington Lines West" there is a photo or two or Santa Fe trains at Holdrege NE. on those same days.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 8:43 am Subject: Fw: [CBQ] 1952 flooding Thought Bill Schultz might know, but he only has the suggestion below.
Hol
From: jwschultz9@aol.com <jwschultz9@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:23 AM To: holpennywagner@msn.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] 1952 flooding
Hol --
The chump is stumped. I don't know, but an educated guess is ATSF Kansas City-Bucklin, Mo.-Q-Chicago, affording the most direct route resulting in the least amount of detour mileage. The Santa Fe employed the opposite route (ATSF Chicago-Bucklin; Q Bucklin-Kansas City) during 1951's three Kaw River floods in Kansas City/Argentine. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com> To: Bill (J.W.) Schultz <jwschultz9@aol.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 10:11 pm Subject: Fw: [CBQ] 1952 flooding Bill:
If anyone knows, it's probably you.
Hol
From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of 'Dave Lotz'
Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 2:29 PM To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Cc: 47builder@gmail.com Subject: [CBQ] 1952 flooding
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
Roeland Park, KS
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