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Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1620

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Digest Number 1620
From: Scott Millick <smillick@w...>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:21:52 -0600
In-reply-to: <3E6BA0E0.DC2FCDEA@c...>
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my grandad worked for the ITS and always called it traction as that is what it was. I Travel Slowly was the nickname

At 02:15 PM 3/9/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I don't think IT stands for "Illinois Traction". I believe it's "Illinois
Terminal". There is also an "Iowa Terminal", but I seriously doubt they had
any such equipment. lol -Val

William Barber wrote:

> My guess would be Wabash. Q's 4-8-4s were all numbered 5600 - 5635, IC
> never had a 4-8-4 that I know of and Illinois Traction was an
> interurban electric RR which had no steam locomotives. I can't remember
> what Wabash numbered their 4-8-4s. BTW, the earliest 4-8-4s were
> delivered to Northern Pacific in 1926, I believe. That would make the
> oldest one about 77 years ago.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 01:28 PM, BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
>
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:02:23 -0600
> > From: Scott Millick <smillick@w...>
> > Subject: engines
> >
> > Is there anywhere that there is a record of the steam engine numbers
> > I am
> > going through some old photos that are 80 years old or so my
> > grandfather
> > took. I have a pix of a 4-8-4 steamer number 6117 but no other id on
> > it.
> > It could be an IC , Wabash CB&Q or Illinois Traction as that is what
> > was in
> > the area of Hamel. Staunton or Litchfield, Illinois Ideas to see what
> > line
> > it was?
>
>
>
>
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