Glenn
I was not so lucky about being on time on my trip on #10 in June of 1966. We
were running 20 cars, pulled by four motors in a forward, backward, backward,
backward arrangement. We had air hose problems in Wray, Colorado and were
stopped for an hour. We then lost more time. Through Iowa the next morning
we were going so fast that the dining car crew were saying we would be into
Chicago early. But then, in Illinois, we started hitting yellow block after
yellow block, until they sidelined the freight in front of us and let us go
around.
That was the trip where, having my dad's old reflex camera, I double exposed
a picture of Marc Chagall's The Traveler over the nose of the lead E8 of our
train, taken in Chicago Union Station. Unfortunately, I have long since lost
the photo.
sjl
glenehaug@m... wrote:
> I really enjoyed all of the posts on the second-section operations.
> I had the pleasure of observing Denver Zephyr #10 on week-day
> mornings for about 6 weeks at Burlington during the summer of 1966.
> As I remember, the train operated in 2 sections at least half of the
> time, with the second section being 15 to 20 minutes behind.
>
> The train I remember the most, however, was on a Monday morning when
> #10 was running with a single consist of 5 motors and 27! cars, all
> stainless steel. The impressiveness of this train was what caused me
> to count the cars. This train appeared to span the entire length of
> the Mississippi River bridge.
>
> Equally impressive was the departure time from Burlington of about
> 7:05AM (6:05 CST, the Q didn't observe daylight time in 1966). I
> believe the train was supposed to leave at 6:01, so this train was
> virtually on time despite, probably, double-stopping everywhere
> across Nebraska and Iowa.
>
> Glen Haug
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