> Bill:
Hello, Lenny.
> The M&StL had trackage rights over both the CB&Q and
> the Wabash from Albia to Des Moines. They ran a
> Second class train each way. # 894 was Eastbound and
> # 895 was Westbound. These are shown in CB&Q
> timetable No.90 effective October 27, 1957. Wabash
> timetable No. 53 effective October 25, 1959 shows
> them also.
OK. I mentioned in a note to Steven (I think) that I
recalled a Wabash train with a lone coach on the end.
MAYBE you and I are talking about the same train.
This was in the lata 50s and I'd swear it had a Wabash
diesel on the point, but I likely am wrong.
Did the M&StL have a similar arrangement in the early
50s? I remember some freights going through the Albia
CB&Q depot with locomotives like I never saw before.
They were BEATTIFUL -- yellow and green, as I recall.
they were early Jeeps, for I don't remember them
looking like F units. They were also apparently
turbocharged, for they made a noise that I never heard
the Q or Wabash freight units make.
Thanks much, Lenny.
Bill
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