Re: [CBQ] Empire Builder Location

["Ken Martin via Groups.Io" <kmartin537=surewest.net@groups.io>]

1965 was the year the levee across from Burlington, IA gave way and the water 
going through a RR underpass took out I want to say three hundred yards of Q 
mainline.

Ken Martin




> On Nov 27, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Frederick Ripley <fjripley68@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom and List,
> 
> The big flood was definitely 1965, with CB&Q detours on MILW covered in 
> "Trains".   Not to say there couldn't have been a reroute in 1966. 
> 
> As the water rose but they were still trying to use the CB&Q, for a day or 
> two a steam loco on display at Lacrosse I think was put into service, 
> ferrying trains a short distance over trackage with water almost to rail 
> heads that diesels couldn't negotiate.   In the "Trains" coverage there is a 
> shot of it with the "Builder/NCL".
> 
> Fred R.
> Columbus, OH
> 


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