The 406 came over from the Rocket House on Monday and is now in service
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth H Thompson" <KTHOMPSON4@wi.rr.com>
To: <Engine1385@aol.com>; "Fred Oakland" <redbrae@wi.rr.com>; "Tom Barrett"
<barrett@galesburg.net>; "sandy bybee" <jsbybee@winco.net>; "Jim Spice"
<jimjet2@attbi.com>; <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units
> I love it.
>
> Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units
>
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> > Since the new Bi-Levels look like the clandestine coupling of a Gallery
> Car
> > with a Pioneer II prototype I don't think any self-respecting Q E unit
> would
> > join tightlocks with Metra equipment.
> > The best thing that can be said is the new units may be less ugly than
the
> > F59PHIs and definitely less offensive than the Frankenstein units that
> were
> > built for the Long Island.
> > I bet the new Metra cars aren't built to CB&Q standards......guess we
have
> > forgotten the lessons of the Naperville wreck. It will be interesting
to
> > see if the Metra cars last over a half century and counting (I may not
be
> > around to observe it as I remember going through a brand new Gallery car
> > parked for display on the end of the tail track at Prairie Avenue in
> > Brookfield in very late 1949 or early 1950 ....as a four year old!!)
> > Reminds me of the story that I heard at one of the BRHS meets years ago
> > about the CB&Q engineer that went out to Budd to review the (Santa Fe
> > design) pre-war coaches and diners. The Q didn't like the construction,
> > insisting that the buffeting strength (may be wrong term, but you know,
> when
> > they put the carbody on a rack and test the compressive resistance to
> > telescoping) were not up to Burlington Standards.
> > Mr. Ragsdale from Budd said something to the effect that "This design
has
> > been made and approved by a Graduate of M.I.T.!!"
> > to which the young CB&Q engineer said, "Well, I am a graduate of
S.H.I.T.
> > and I don't agree with those conclusions!"
> > Mr. Ragsdale send an angry telegram to the Corporate Offices dmenading
> that
> > the Q recall this crude person to which they replied that the employee
was
> > indeed a graduate of the Sam Houston Institute of Technology!!!
> > The Q was proven right when the heavyweight equipment went through the
> first
> > Silver Inn like a knife through butter.
> > I may have heard the story from Bat.....
> > Charlie Vlk
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lyle Dowell" <slyone@ix.netcom.com>
> > To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units
> >
> >
> > > matter of taste I guess. I caught a glimpse of two in person a couple
> > > weekends ago as they passed by the Naperville station while I was
> > > inside. Didn't get a good look but thought they looked pretty sharp.
> > > However, a stainless E would be a MAJOR improvement!
> > >
> > > Lyle
> > >
> > > <snip> Unit was rather ugly if you ask me,
> > > > but I caught it out of the corner of my eye. What I
> > > > wouldn't give to see an E-unit pulling some Burlington Bi-levels!
> > > >
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