Hey Kids,
Remember when railfanning in Oquawka be sure to see the "Norma Jean Memnorial"
It's worth the trip. Also the town diner has some great eats at a good price,
not to mention the fish fry on Fridays.
I would like to complain about the alleged heritage unit. Shouldn't it have
been painted as a "Gray Ghost"? After all it is a wide cab!!
For next year I think a SD-40-2 with a high hood and high mounted mars lights
front and back should be painted as a graybird. Oooh-oooh and those funky
flared spark arrestors and a all weather cab window.
Wait, better still, a silver Metra F-59 with stainless side panels and Black
grills.
Loren get busy.
Happy modeling,
Rob Manley
----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Martin
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:46 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: BNSF's CB&Q Heritage loco
The Peoria and Oquawka was originally authorized to build from Peoria
to Oquawka, that was changed in 1852 to from Peoria to a point opposite
from Burlington. It was also authorized to extend said road from Peoria
to a point on the Indiana border. This extention was completed in 1859
and subsequently sold at forclosure sale to the TP&W in 1864. The line
west from Peoria was completed to Burlington via Galesburg in 1855 and
was operated by the CB&Q, This line was sold by foreclosure sale to CB&Q
in 1864 and was renamed Peoria and Burlington and then merged into the CB&Q.
So it is a BNSF Heritage road.
Ken Martin
lyon_wonder wrote:
>The Peoria and Oquawka was a predecessor of the TP&W. ATSF acquired the TP&W
in the late 1970s, only to be sold off again as an independent railroad in the
1989. Since ATSF divested itself of TP&W's trackage and the TP&W reconstituted
itself as a separate road before the 1995 merger, I'm not sure the TP&W and
it's predecessors would quality as a BNSF heritage railroad?
>
>--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "bigbearoak" <jonathanharris@...> wrote:
>
>
>>Yes ... I can see it now, ... a lash-up of BNSF SD70MACs emerging from a
tunnel hauling a 100-car train. The engineer proudly waves from the lead unit,
which is resplendent in its freshly painted heritage scheme, lettered for the
Peoria and Oquawka.
>>
>>
>>--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I would also like to see a Redbird. Hope somebody at BNSF is looking and
maybe will copy Uncle Pete with heritage unots for all the premerged roads(GN,
NP, SF(both), Frisco, etc). ..........CY
>>>
>>>
>>>
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