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Hello Paul and All - So......if we plan our Q lunch in the Silver Star how much travel time should we allow??? PAW ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Paul Nash <paulv@wideopenwest.com> To: Railroad Roundtable <rrroundtable@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 1:15 PM Subject: [RR Roundtable] FW: [brasscollectors] Digest Number 2826 Interesting info on how Q’ obs wound up in Australia. From: brasscollectors@yahoogroups.com [mailto:brasscollectors@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:39 AM To: brasscollectors@yahoogroups.com Subject: [brasscollectors] Digest Number 2826 Wed Jan 8, 2014 6:42 am (PST) . Posted by:"Tom McKenna" traveler48195Pretty amazing - and the car looks to be in pretty decent condition - who knew it still existed!!! Imagine the cost of transporting that to Australia!!!! Makes one wonder how much other stuff there is floating around like
that! Thanks for sharing. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: pmo77304@bigpond.net.au To: brasscollectors@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:34 AM Subject: [brasscollectors] Silver Star from the Genereral Pershing Zephyr There are lots of things I don't know about trains but it can be real fun some days finding out bits of information, especially when it relates to brass model trains. However, thought I'd share this item I learnt a few nights ago after cruising around the web: The Silver Star Café in Port Hedland, on the far North Western Coast of Australia, started life in 1939 as the Silver Star Observation/Parlour/Dining coach of the 'General Pershing Zephyr' Streamliner of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. It was used on the Mt Newman Mines private railroad in Australia for over 25 years. They're the same group that used two of the Western Pacific's F-7s. When it first came to Australia it was named The Sundowner but since being refurbished into a café, has reverted to its original Silver Star. Fascinating. So just in case anybody else didn't know and gets curious, here's a link: http://www.silverstarcafe.com.au/ And further for whatever might or might not twerk your train appetite, PSC are planning on making an HO scale model of the General Pershing Zephyr. Cheers Phil Morrow. Melbourne - The one Downunder. 2a-- ======================================================= To post a message, send email to rrroundtable@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rrroundtable-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/rrroundtable?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RR Roundtable" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rrroundtable+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. __._,_.___
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