[CBQ] Fw: Maxon

["Steven Holding" <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

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From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>

To: brhs@groups.io <brhs@groups.io>

Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 01:32:01 PM EST

Subject: Maxon

My Signal Notes show

ABS installed Ottumwa to Osceola in 1925

Tower Maxon burned to the ground(Careless use of heating material) 12/4/32  CTC installation Halpin to Maxon account tracks split for South Albia Hill (Halpin was controlled by Tower 307(( Early install of towers on CB&Q towers were numbered by milepost))) {Photo of Tower 307 in Bob Brown's "CB&Q Iowa Main Line and Branch Line Depots and Towers" P. 24 }  {Photo inside Maxon Tower P. 22}GRS Bulletin #169 shows the CTC installed and controlled by operator at Albia Depot.  This installation was further moved to the DS Ottumwa Desk in Galesburg in 1986  I was working the 2nd trick Relief then moving to 2nd trick Ottumwa DS in Jan. of '88

I think Doug's photo of the Maxon "Depot" was nothing more then a Phone Booth for  CB&Q and M&St. L(later CNW)   Brownie shows Maxon Tower built mid-late 1890's  After burn early CTC then called tower remotes installed and in operation July 21, 1933.  The phone booth was also used during track maintenance season to reverse trains between Maxon and Lawler Tower(Milw Xing Ottumwa) with an extra operator to  copy DR orders.

The Albia CTC (in Brick Depot) remoted Maxon Tower  Albia Tower 303 and Halpin Tower 307

I worked the 2nd trick Ottumwa Desk until moving to a Temp ADM Chief job (had to be bid in every 90 days)till Feb of '93 when management took off the ADM job getting ready for the move to Ft. Worth and I got the Main Line Job back I had owned in Cicero before the move to Galesburg. 

Notes from my Signal notebooks, time books  and Brownies "CB&Q Dispatchers Log Books  Ottumwa Iowa Div 1886-1947

Steve in SC

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