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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