East Dubuque, IL: CB&Q+IC Depot and East End Cabin: CN/IC plus BNSF/CB&Q & Aban/CGW

Cabin: (Satellite)
NorthAmericanInterlockings:  model board,   table lever machine on the left,   office desk

Depots: (Satellite, they are gone, see the 1947 aerial photo below for details.)

3 of 14 photos posted by kelly Sedgwick with the comment: "East Dubuque, Illinois."

Thomas Whitt shared

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Gerald A. Edgar: The then 'new' IC depot (shared with CB&Q) and the old one behind & left. That one had separate men's (smoking) & women's waiting rooms AND a potbelly stove in each! Depot had FAR, far more use by Q than the IC which at it's best only had 2 trains each way whereas the Q had 6 or 7 ea way.

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[Note the Mississippi River in the background.]

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1940's
John Knepper: Looks like the old rock building on the right in East Dubuque ?

Kelly Sedgwick: John Knepper. Yes, it's still there.

Gerald A. Edgar: John Knepper Yes, looking due south with IC tracks diverging to the left (with CGW trackage rights) and Q continuing due North. (thus the GN's WFEX reefer). East Cabin ended Q's trackage rights It was cramped! (got inside with an operator once, "in the day".

[Actually, it is looking southeast from about here.]

This street view confirms I dropped a satellite pin on the correct "rock building."

Street View, Oct 2022

The 2005 SPV RR Map shows that East Cabin was where the IC+CGW left the track through town that was shared with CB&Q. The map shows that Murphy was a little further east. The map shows Murphy was at the throat of a little yard. West Cabin was on the other end of the tunnel.

Photograph 4/60 by Dr. J W F Scimgeour via John Hinson
"The view looks south towards Chicago along the double track line used by trains of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago Great Western Railroads, although the line was actually owned by the Illinois Central....All of this equipment was installed in 1946 by the Union Switch and Signal Co., at the joint expense of the IC, CB&Q and CGW railroads."

Steve Youngberg posted two photos with the comment: "Oh crud ! The East Cabin is gone. I suppose these are long gone also. I'm glad I got to see them and grab a couple of photos when I did. By the way it looked, they weren't going to last much longer."
Samuel Timothy East Cabin finally got torn down a few years ago. The interlocking rods and machine have been gone since 1994 when it was decommissioned. The only thing left in the cabin before it was leveled was the frame of the interlocking machine.
Dennis DeBruler Thanks for taking photos of the signalling pipelines. That is a solution as to how to do a 90-degree turn that I have never seen before.

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[I presume that the purpose of these linkages is to absorb expansion and contraction as the temperature changes.]

1955 Dubuque South Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

The cabin should have existed in 1946 because the equipment was installed then. But I don't see it in this photo. I was surprised to see the photo date of 1947 because most of the Illinois aerials were taken before WWII. Red is the cabin, yellow is the old depot and green is the new depot.

1947 Aerial Photo, at photo resolution

Darren Reynolds posted three photos with the comment:

Inside of Burlington Northern's "East Cabin" 

Interlocking and train order office 

At East Dubuque, Illinois

Jon Roma: East Cabin interlocking was operated and maintained by Illinois Central (later by spinoff CC&P), and not CB&Q.

East Cabin closed on June 7, 1994. Later, control of the plant was transferred to BNSF dispatchers in Ft. Worth, Texas.

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The desk at Burlington Northern's "East Cabin"

Photo by: Dave Kroeger 1986

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The model board at "East Cabin"

Photo by: Dave Kroeger 1986

[Some comments point out that this photo with the "Mendota" label does not belong here.]

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The desk at Burlington Northern's " East Cabin "

Phot by Dave Kroeger 1986

All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada.