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Interesting. ever heard of the "Dolly" before and tried googling a few things. There was a thread about this on Trainorders.com, back in 2015:
Date: 09/18/15 22:42
Depot Friday, CB&Q's at Alpha, IL Author: MartyBernard A scan of a slide by Roger Puta. Here is what he wrote on the slide: "CB&Q station at Alpha, IL. Woodhull - Joy line (with gate across) crosses Savanna - Galesburg main. June 19, 1966"
Date: 09/19/15 01:35
Re: Depot Friday, CB&Q's at Alpha, IL Author: aaronhanson What was the status of the Woodhull-Joy line as of the date of this photo? I believe there was a branch off the main at Galva which went to Gladstone. I read about a historic local called the Dolly run which ran from Galva to Gladstone and then finished at Galesburg, but this was discontinued in 1959. It looks like this branch was dismantled in pieces but I'm not finding much about it.
Date: 09/19/15 11:30
Re: Depot Friday, CB&Q's at Alpha, IL Author: NDHolmes Originally the line ran all the way down the hill. At the bottom of the bluffs, it split at Keithsburg Juction into a line to New Boston and one south down through Keithsburg (crossing the M&StL) that went down and rejoined the CB&Q mainline at Gladstone.
The line was severed in 1952 with the Keithsburg Junction to Oquawka segment coming out. That was the end of the Dolly. Galva to Nekoma came out in 1958 and everything west of Joy came out in 1959. Woodhull to Nekoma was removed in 1961. Alpha to Woodhull and Aledo to Joy were abandoned 1981, and the rest came out in 1986.
 CB&Q Ottumwa & Creston Divisions Employee Time Table 92 10-26-1958 can be downloaded from the wx4.org website at this link:
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