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Rick,
I had forwarded Dallas' reply to Jim Will who is from
Leavenworth.
I received this back from Jim. He is a retired C&NW engineer
and long time railroad historian for Leavenworth, Kansas. He said
I could go ahead and post this on this list:
“From what I can recall about the Q at Leavenworth is they worked
daylight. The main thing for them was Bay State. I do know they
got a few switches a day. In the early 60's, this would be a lot
of 40 foot boxcar traffic loads with wheat, XF type cars for bag
loads and air slides for bulk flour (more bulk loading towards the
end). They used a lot of MOP 110xxx XF flour boxcars and also ATSF
XF boxcars. Bay State had also leased I think some GATX airslides.
The Q interchanged with the MOP & UP near the Leavenworth
Union Depot. The MOP & UP delivered to the Q. I do remember
seeing the UP delivering several times 10 car blocks to the Q. I
never saw the UP haul any loads from the Q. I think most of the
wheat that Bay State used came in on the ATSF. The last ATSF agent
(last name Kessinger Jim thinks), told me that the ATSF had a deal
to haul in wheat and get flour in return and gave a good rate to
Bay State.
The Q also had other customers. Beverly Lumber received lumber on
flatcars and boxcars and Bergman Coal got some coal. The Great
Western Foundry received coke for making their products. Boxcar
loads of paper was delivered to Sacks By the Tracks at 3rd and
Choctaw (maybe received a couple of cars a week), and he remembers
the Hay track as being used as a team track. Beer also came to
town via the Q for Budweiser. At one time the Schlitz warehouse
received beer. Most of these were not switched daily, just as
needed. “
Bill Hirt
On 2/5/2019 10:58 AM, Rick Keil wrote:
Dallas
Thank you for the information, I am always amazed at how much
useful information pops up from just a single question.
With that, I have another, was the switcher assigned to
Leavenworth and tied down there? Most of this information is
for a friend building a layout with Leavenworth as one of the
locations but now I am interested in how the Q operated there
too.
Ricky Keil
The loco pictured in Bill's post is the type of engine that
was in service when I was there.
I was Freight House Foreman (Yard Clerk, Billing Clerk, BTL /
LCL Clerk) in 11worth in the late 1960's - early 1970's,
around BN merger time.
I billed cars for the Q and Rock Island occasionally as we
were a joint agency for CB&Q / BN, Rock Island, CGW / CNW
and we interchanged with the ATSF.
Bay State Milling was the biggest customer at that time and
generated several cars (air-slide hoppers of flour) per day.
They required several switches at 9:00a, Noon, 3:00p, 6:00p to
spot cars. We did hot have much other business except the
occasional beer car from Budweiser and a car of lumber now and
then.
The job was held by old heads as they were on duty at 9:00am
and had switches throughout the day. Between switches they
were on the spot, usually cooking something upstairs in the
crew quarters. After the last switch of the day they would get
the train together and take it ten miles or so across the
river to East Leavenworth on the CB&Q mainline. It was an
overtime job every day.
Chief Clerk was K T Boucher, Cashier was Bill Drysdale
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