Nostalgia & History > 9 of Various C&NW Rolling Stock, Buildings, etc.

1. CNW 11006 Caboose at Mills Tower (last manned tower), Iowa Falls, IA July 31, 1982.  Bill Kuba photos, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

2. CNW at Beverly, Cedar Rapids April 1982, looks like two grain hoppers spilled.  Bill Kuba photos, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

3. CNW Beverly Tower July 30, 1983, no other information and Google can't find it.  Bill Kuba photos, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection



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4. CNW dead engines, Des Moines, IA Oct. 16, 1982.  Bill Kuba photos, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

5. CNW Depot, Clinton, IA May 17, 1997.  Bill Kuba photos, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

6. CNW GE C44-9W 8680 built April 1994, became UP 9784 and seen at Fairfax, IA April 23, 1995.  Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

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7. CNW GE C44-9W 8682 built April 1994, became UP 9786, and seen in Otis, Cedar Rapids, IA May 29, 1998.  Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

8. CNW GP35 833 built April 1964, retired July 1986, and seen in Cedar Rapids, IA June 2, 1972.  Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

9. CNW GP35 839 built April 1964, retired July 1986 and seen in Cedar Rapids, IA  Jly 1967.  Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

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Enjoyed all of the shots.  Thanks for posting.
One correction tho...the name of the tower in the first picture is "Mills".
zr190

Cedar Rapids seems like a hopping place. Thanks for sharing these..

Beverly tower was under the "new" US 30 overpass.  It was the west end junction where the freight bypass left the original main line into Cedar Rapids and also where the Milwaukee's Marion to Ottumwa line crossed the CNW.  The crossing and the tower were both removed in the early/mid 1980s.

I remember Clinton depot with covered platforms. Also, Shultz's rooming house, "No hots and a cot". Right across the street from the Clinton Knee Highs drum and bugle corps. Nice to hear bright and early on a Saturday morning after an all nighter on the Galena Division. Just goes to show how really old I am.

Thanks for posting, Marty.  #2 is at Beverly Yard, and it looks like the grain spilled across the eastbound main.  #3 shows Beverly Tower, located as mentioned at the CNW-MILW crossing where the CNW's passenger main diverged on it's west end.  The shot was taken before the current US30 overpass was built.  By the time I got to  Cedar Rapids in 1985, the tower was closed and the crossing automated.  That summer, the diamonds were removed, and in early 1986, the tower was demolished.  

Nick Tharalson,
Mation, IA



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ntharalson Wrote:
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> Thanks for posting, Marty.  #2 is at Beverly
> Yard, and it looks like the grain spilled across
> the eastbound main.  #3 shows Beverly Tower,
> located as mentioned at the CNW-MILW crossing
> where the CNW's passenger main diverged on it's
> west end.  The shot was taken before the current
> US30 overpass was built.  By the time I got to 
> Cedar Rapids in 1985, the tower was closed and the
> corssing automated.  That summer, the diamonds
> were removed, and in early 1986, the tower was
> demolished.  
>
> Nick Tharalson,
> Mation, IA

I don't think that the Milwaukee/CNW crossing at Beverly Tower was ever made an automatic interlocking.  In the last years of Milwaukee operation the tower was unmanned.  if a MILW train, and later Crandic train, needed to use the diamond, the operator at Beverly would go to the tower and line up the interlocking.  The Crandic built a new connection from their Corn Sweeteners yard complex south of the CNW that allowed abandoning the diamond, and the tower. 

The signals at the crossing were all semaphores.