- 1. [CBQ] Why Wyoming (score: 1)
- Author: "bkobielusz" <bkobielusz@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:59:53 -0600
- Hi All Does anyone know the reason fo the 2 CB&Q runs up through Wyoming. Was it merely a connection for parent Company Norther Pacific in Montana? Where they trying to generate trackside business or
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- 2. Re: [CBQ] Why Wyoming (score: 1)
- Author: cy svobodny <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:29:57 -0800 (PST)
- It's only a guess, connection w/NP but also Yellowstone Park. The Q was not a land grant railroad like the NP & IC among others. Land grants were not all that good like everybody thinks. The IC got a
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- 3. Re: [CBQ] Why Wyoming (score: 1)
- Author: "harold huber" <sarge9@bresnan.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:41:31 -0700
- Brad, Simply, the Q was trying to reach Yellowstone and all that passenger traffic. They first went from Alliance to Sheridan to Billings For a while they had a cut off from Tuloca, MT to Cody, but a
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- 4. Re: [CBQ] Why Wyoming (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@surewest.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:47:11 -0800
- While the Burlington was not primarily built with land grants there were areas where they did get land grants. Some of that may have been from RR's the CB&Q bought, but it still applied to them. See:
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