[CBQ] CB&Q Mileage Tariff from the 1960's

["Jack Schroeder" <jack@highlandwebworks.com>]

    All:
    Regarding the 'Q' Rail Network project I am working on...
    the interest I have seen today is exciting. I now know that others
    see this project as having interest/value, and not just to me. 
    
    It has been my hope from the start to add track charts and
    industries, as well as photos and the location maps of all stations.
    It is just one step at a time. For the past few weeks I have been
    working on taking Steve Holdings track charts and putting them
    together into separate PDF files for each of the 260 line segments I
    have created in the track database. Then there will be a map and
    track chart together.  Currently Steve's charts are by division.  
    
    I will continue to work on assembling the track charts which will
    take me a few more weeks. I don't know Sam Cook and/or if his
    station charts would be/could be incorporated into this project. 
    They are excellent and far better then any track charts I have
    currently. 
    
    After I get Steve Holding's track charts added, I planned to work on
    adding industries by stations. 
    I will soon make the station web pages available so that all members
    can add(upload) industry information as well as other stuff about
    the station.  That will keep me from having to be a funnel for
    any/all industry contributions. Last week I added all of the RR
    connections for each station, which I got from a Official Equipment
    Register. Then today I discovered there is a BRHS web page that
    listed them all (which I put together a few years ago). Ha ha. 
    
    Beyond that I would love to include more historical photos of the
    stations. Currently all of the station photos in the BRHS Photo
    Library are already linked to the 'Q' Rail Network station web
    pages. I am just hoping more/additional station photos could be
    added and then tied into this project.  Also I want to flag every
    station that was a passenger station (vs operating points like state
    borders or rail junctions) Everything right now is circa late 1960s,
    but once that base is accomplished work could continue with more
    historical periods. 
    
    I am still looking for a mid-1960's CB&Q mileage tariff,
    which will give me information that can be used to validate my line
    segments and add more quantitative information about the rail
    network. 
    
    As always your comments, error discoveries, and suggestions are
    welcomed. 
    
    PS:  Are any of you aware of other RR historical groups that have
    generated this kind of rail network feature? If so share that with
    us/me.  Thanks.

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Jack Schroeder
817 485-1922
jack@highlandwebworks.com

On 10/20/2020 9:56 AM, Tom Mack via groups.io wrote:

>       
>       On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:26 AM, Jack Schroeder wrote:
> > I am working on a BRHS web site project to document
> >         the CB&Q's rail network as of the late 1960's. This will
> >         include a station search (1,733 stations) with map location,
> >         station information such as photos, track profile, operating
> >         division and more..., and line segments (260 segments) which
> >         will show a map, list stations in order on each segment, track
> >         profiles for that segment and more, and a station or segment
> >         search using a map feature to get you to the stations.
>       Jack,
>       
>       This sounds awesome! Thanks for working on this!
>       
>       I was going to bring this up separately, but now might be a better
>       time in view of Jack's work. The list of industries along the Q on
>       the BRHS website is very old and inadequate. Don't get me wrong,
>       it's better than nothing, but it apparently came originally from
>       the NMRA OpSig so it is not particularly Q focused. For example,
>       there are no industries listed for Oregon, IL. Kable Printing in
>       Mt. Morris is listed, but Oregon and its industries (e.g.
>       carnation) are not. That includes the huge sand operation at
>       Oregon that is currently operated by Unimin. Photos I have
>       collected from Oregon show many reefers there in the late 1960's,
>       clearly destined for Carnation, so the operation was going strong
>       even in the late 1960's. There were also other industries more in
>       downtown Oregon (like Etnyre) that occasionally got cars.
>       
>       I recently posted about the route "around the horn" from Mendota
>       to Denrock to Savanna. To my surprise, only one industry, Del
>       Monte Foods in Mendota, is mentioned for the entire line from
>       Mendota to Savanna. But when I went through the track charts there
>       were plenty of sidings in the towns, no doubt for grain elevators
>       and perhaps deliveries of agricultural products - fertilizer, farm
>       equipment, maybe ammonia.
>       
>       So with Jack's agreement I am proposing we expand the project to
>       add industries to his location information. I know this will be a
>       work in progress, but it seems now would be the better time to
>       start doing this, making sure we have the "placeholders" to have
>       this information. And since I am suggesting this, I am also
>       volunteering to help with this, especially the C&I,
>       Around-the-Horn, and Savanna to Mpls-StP to get started. I would
>       probably need some help from those familiar with the route, but I
>       have all the track charts and could start documenting sidings and
>       checking the books I have for photos, etc. I just think this would
>       be a great place to "park" the industries served information that
>       I already realized was lacking in sufficient data on the BRHS
>       website.
>        
>       -- 
>       Tom Mack
>       Cincinnati, OH
>       
>

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