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Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Burlington Route "Coloradoan"
From: "wollffee" <wolfee@onebox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:36:32 -0000
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Pete, thanks.  Don't worry about the TT research, that's close 
enough.  When the CB&Q in Color, vol. 5 comes out, it is suppose to 
have lots of Denver coverage.  Maybe I can get some pics and more 
details there.

--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, PSHedgpeth@a... wrote:
> I'll attempt an answer strictly from memory...I don'thave an old TT 
to refer 
> to.
> 
> The Coloradoan No. 19wB and 6 EB was basically a mail and express 
train with 
> a coach or two..
> 
> I think No. 19 left Chicago in the late am and made lots of 
stops...It was in 
> Lincoln (where most of my memories of the train were made in the 
mid 50's) 
> about 11:20-midnight IIRC...The train was switched and serviced at 
Lincoln..it 
> was here quite awhile...It then went on west making the local 
stops...Seems 
> like it got to Denver around Noon or so.
> 
> EB No. 6 left Denver in the afternoon...It got to McCook where it 
laid for 
> several hours and then came on east..Got to Lincoln in the early am 
5-6 plus 
> minus....Then ran local across Iowa to Chicago.
> 
> Sometime in the early to mid 60's it was consolidated with, I 
think, the 
> Nebraska Zephyr.east of Lincon. .I seem to recall seeing photos of 
a very heavy 
> No. 11 and/or 12  (Nebraska Zephyr) taken by Corbin..maybe even on 
a calendar.
> 
> It definitely was not a lightweight train..Might have had a LW 
coach or 
> sleeper from time to time...It was not a train a non railfan would 
want to ride...
> 
> If someone doesn't come up with better info, I've got some 1950's 
TT's which 
> can give exact times if anyone is interested.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
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