Lenny
They were RS-1's Built by Alco
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Chambers <ace1942us@y...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Albia, Moravia and the IaC
> > 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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