E5's 9910AB thru 9912AB were purchase for the heavyweight Chicago-Oakland
Exposition Flyer, the CZ's prewar predecessor.
sjl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Vlk" <charlie@k...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Es pulling Heavyweights
> ....just learned the Q did pull Heavyweight Passengers with Es.
> Was this a common thing,...
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> Most people don't realize that the railroads, even the Mighty Stainless
> Steel Burlington, never had enough money or reason to convert their
> passenger fleets 100% to lightweight cars. I was on a B&OCT fantrip in
> 1956-7? which went over the St.Charles Air Line viaduct and took a picture
> down over 14th Street which had one silver trainset in it....the rest of
the
> yard (other than a GN trainset) was Pullman green heavyweight equipment
(not
> counting the dinky coaches out of view to the north in the commuter
> coachyard).
> When you start looking at pictures of real trains operating in the 50's
(not
> publicity stills) you see what I mean......ratty head end equipment,
foreign
> line cars, heavyweights, pool equipment. I remember riding the American
> Royal (at least I think that's what it was, I was in 7th grade) to Mendota
> and I swear the Q coach had the gas light fixtures still in it
(electrified,
> of course, it was around 1956-7!). I think the CZ was one of the few pure
> trainsets that ran as God and Mr. Budd intended it to (with the occasional
> foreign lightweight Pullman). Even the DZ had Lancaster Club, etc. as a
> dormitory car regularly.
> Charlie Vlk
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