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I will return any photos sent to me for scanning. If you have photos and a scanner you can send them as an email attachment. JPG format is best but GIF and BMP can be used if that's what you have. If you can save them in a resolution of 96 or 72 pixels per inch that will make them email MUCH faster. Photos scanned at a higher resolution can become so large that they take 15 minutes to email.
A good photo of Bartlett yard appears in Kalmbach's 2nd edition of "Track Planning for Realistic Operation" It is taken from the vantage point of the overpass at the yard throat. Other photos appear in the Morning Sun books, and a nice one of the engine house is in Kalmbach's brand new book "...Locomotive Servicing Terminals" . Another article covering the CNW's Radnor hill in a past Northwestern Lines highlights the same area. It is a neat little yard and is a perfect candidate for modeling. Brian Shumaker email: cripnut@aol.com
4/25/2001 by Roger Kujawa from the M&StL eGroup list
Just noticed on my way home from work. The BNSF was taking out the old CNW xing that accessed the remnant of the MSTL from Peoria to Middlegrove. This is at what is called Molitor Jct. Just west of Peoria. Molitor Jct. was created after the MSTL merger when the CNW abandoned the MSTL Bartlet Yard. The CNW put the xing in so they could access the MSTL from their own line. Originally the MSTL parallel the Q and CNW into Peoria with the Q being in the middle. The road crossings west of Peoria on the MSTL line have been paved over for a year but the UP was not interested in getting rid of it. The line to Middlegrove was railbanked to access the strip mines west of Peoria. The were to be used as landfills for out of County garbage. This was the same reason the BN kept their line from Yates City south to Farmington even though there was no business on the line. It has been railbanked for quite a while now also. I don't know if this means abandonment is coming or just a way for the BN and UP to cut down on xing maintenance.
Roger Kujawa - Morton, Il. PRESIDENT - ATLANTIC & GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ark@bwsys.net Check out the AGW on line at: http://www.geocities.com/agw_railway/
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