Railway Maintenance Engineer Dec. 1921 Talks about "A Modern Concrete Slab and Pile Plant" Havelock, Neb Railway Maintenance Engineer June 1921 "How Concrete Pile Trestles are Built" Gives drawings f
Leo The plants are in sections and were set up so you could make parallel moves. Once a section is clear it is ok to reline a movement thru it. The neat thing is in the West Eola plant with a train t
List Also check "Narrow Gauge to No Man's Land" as a lot of surplus 60 cm equiptment was sold or given to the states for road construction. Due to no ready mix trucks and very light dump trucks narro
John The second place bidder owns a bunch of equiptment rusting away in Wisconsin and has not done any work let alone let anyone see it. One problem is where are you going to run a big locomotive whi
So what do we do next year with the snow and on the subject of modern operations Bob for got the assigned helpers between Chariton and Ottumwa with the modern power SJH -- -- Click here for Free Vide
Mike If you live in Peoria area you should make a trip to the show. They run both steam and Electrics and really haul the people. Wish I was closer to get there again SJH -- -- Click here for Free Vi
Turntable list is found on drawing No. 46541 Jan 1, 1952 Eastern District Chicago Div. 14th St. 79.75 ft Deck Girder Electric Drive Western Ave 110 ft. Deck Girder Electric Drive Clyde 135 ft. Deck G
Leo Someone forgot to put the derail back on in the west yard and they rolled thru the mainline switch OOPS sjh -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ [Non-text portions of
Bill The High St. Bridge was built during the Elevation Work from 1915-1934 and it reused a bridge from outwest but no location was given. Hols got an article on this for someday. The Downers Grove T
Steve It went into a washout in Hastings, Iowa (west of Red Oak) in about '85. One lady on the way from the diner to the sleeper with a bottle got caught between cars and crushed was the only problem
Ed That would be the Cucumber Factory(Suppost to be the largest hothouse(Greenhouse)in Illinois)named Kay Bee Company on the Station Map had a spur into the boiler house. Looks like it would be betwe
Richard Right. Both Iowa and Illinois are flat cornfields. And IF you believe that Why do we need helpers. SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
Eric Most southern states kept states rights and therefore all companines had to be chartered in the state even though it was a part of a larger corp. SJH -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www
Mike CTC was not installed between Aurora and Galesburg until after the wreck at Montgomery which was during the installiation. 1964-1966 Then there was a gap at Mendota till the mid '80s. Ed has my
Ed and others Public Funding??? The Aurora Elevation and the Chicago Elevations both were done by the Railroad with little out side contractors and both done under traffic. Gary can you image running
Gary We also could have used all that useless paperwork which came over from the PRR/PC/Conrail on highwide loads which on us are with in regular loading gauge. Course now we are paperless???? SJH --
Rich Found a neat ad for Johns-Manville in the Jan. 20, 1945 Railway Age Has photo of the Diesel House at 14th st. 1937 built 25 ft X 38 ft. shelter for Motors using Johns-Manville corrugated Transit
Dave I Will add my name to the list of calendars MIM(Missing in the mail) Steve Holding -- -- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/