Dennis,
I lived in Aurora and commuted to Chicago daily. I remember on the dinkys
coming home at night after leaving Naperville they used to accelerate until
they had to slow down for the long curve coming into the depot at Aurora. Many
times we banged across the crossing at Eola at 100+ and arrived in the depot
with the areoma of brake smoke wafting from below the cars!!!!!!
They don't do that anymore I'll bet!
Norm
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis C. Henry
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] RE: Chicago commuter question
I recall and have film of bilevels arriving in St. Paul on Blackhawk No. 47
on Saturday, July 29, 1966, during the airline pilots' strike. The same
cars were then attached to the end of No. 22, the eastbound Morning Twin
Zephyr within the hour. I wondered at the time whether the presence of
those cars would limit the top speeds on a train that did a lot of fast
running to make the 6:30 time to Chicago. The above-mentioned movies are
part of my tape "Minnesota Railroad Memories", as several of you know who
have purchased it.
Dennis
At 10:05 AM 8/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>List: This is a fascinating question that iw ill include in the next
>ZEPHYR. Does anyone else have memory or stories where the bilevels were
>used outside of Chicago-Aurora service? Please post your replies to the
>List.
>
>Thanks. Mike.
>
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:11:17 -0500 "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@h...>
>writes:
> >
> >Ditto to Leo's comment - they also picked up (& took back) kids from
> >Loras
> >and Clarke Colleges (Dubuque) in E. Dbq. Gerald Edgar
> >
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