Re: [CBQ] East End Signal Cabins

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

Louis, Glen, Bill-

Louis, thanks for the photos of the old Downers Grove Tower and operators.

Glen, did you ever send me the list of block cabin names?  Also, do you know when the Congress Park tower was instituted?   I think we have established that there was a separate Block Cabin at Park Avenue in Grossdale otherwise it might have been “West Grossdale” and later the operator was at “Congress Park Tower” in 1912 according to the Western Springs wreck testimony.

 

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] East End Signal Cabins

 

Charlie:

 

I think I have all of the old Rule Books, and while I haven't looked at them in a while, I didn't find any mileposts references for block cabins.

 

The only thing I did find was the names of the block cabins.  This was in two locations: in the employee timetables and in a pamphlet entitled "CB&Q Rules Governing the Movement of Trains between Western Avenue Crossing and Downer's Grove by the Block System", taking effect February 1, 1889.

 

Glen Haug

 

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2020 7:35 PM
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Subject: [CBQ] East End Signal Cabins

 

I don’t think we have had a post about Signal Cabins that were used in the Manual Block System Chicago to Aurora.
Many of these were small frame shacks not much bigger than Crossing Gatekeeper Houses.  Some of them were combined with depots or towers.  The system started with telegraphs to pass information up and down the line but became an early conversion to telephone for train control.
The CB&Q employed women in a number of these Signal Cabins.
Does anyone have a turn of the century signal rules book, EET, or other document  (1880-1910 roughly...I don’t have my reference material handy to give exact dates at the moment) that would give milepost locations for these Block Signal Cabins?  
Glen Haug and I have figured out the location of some of them (Grossdale was at Park Avenue before Congress Park Tower was established for example) but we haven’t found any list of the Alpha designated cabins with their physical location.
We have both looked at the Newberry and Glen has been working at Baraboo without finding a lead.
Charlie Vlk

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