Re: [CBQ] Bulletin 61

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

Doug,

I hope you are well.

I am curious what info you got on depots? 

With the Covid shutdown I started doing drawings of depots for want of something to do.

I have been mainly doing older wood depots working from photos so I don’t have any dimensions save for some info from a couple depots I have measured and drawn.

Most of the photos I found on line but it is frustrating  as I often find only one photo or four photos all taken from the same place.

I also seldom find photos of the back side of the depot so have to speculate.

I haven’t done any brick or the two story depots farther west. 

I started with Wever and have now done 45 different depots. 

Stay well.

Ken Martin

On Aug 31, 2020, at 7:14 PM, Douglas Harding <iowacentralrr@gmail.com> wrote:

Charlie I have been to the National Archives three different times, at both Suitland and College Park. I was digging through the ICC valuation reports, but my focus was stockpens in Iowa, which included the CB&Q. I also got into some CBQ in Missouri. Its been a long time since I looked at those files, but I don’t recall much of anything from Illinois. Besides stockpens I did copies files on depots and other structures I found especially interesting from a modeler’s viewpoint, ie roundhouses, water tanks, coaling trestles and the like.

 

David Pfeiffer, was the Archivist I worked with the first two times. He was instrumental in saving the ICC Railroad Valuation reports and has written a book on the records, what the contain and how to access them.

 

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

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