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Re: [BRHSlist] Zephyr 9902???

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Zephyr 9902???
From: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:13:13 -0600
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:18:08 EDT, jsteamernubes wrote
> IIRC, Zephyr 9902 was the name given to the Chicago to Quincy, Ill., 
> service in the mid to late 1940's--early 1950's.  It was called that 
> because it was the second train, the "twin" in the Twin Zephyrs 
> service when it first started out.  The Pioneer Zephyr, 9900, was 
> first, then Twins 9902 and 9902.  The Mark Twain Zephyr was 9903 and 
> so forth.  Nubes
> 
Not quite - 9902 was the *surviving* "First Twin"; sister 9901 was burned in 
Texas in Dec. '44.  9902 did operate the Chi-Quincy run for a while after WW 
II, and was then transferred to the Galesburg-Ottumwa run . . . disassembled 
for spare parts around 1955 or 56.  On the Quincy and Ottumwa runs, the 
locals usually referred to 9902 as "The Little Zephyr" . . . for many years, 
its regular engineer was Bob Stackhouse, who was the father of my closest 
college classmate.

Marshall Thayer
Mt. Pleasant, IA 

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