Seems like everytime I looked the "Q" E-7 was pulling
the Rock Island cars and RI pulling Q cars. CY
--- Mike Cafferata <mcaff1@htc.net> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I used to watch the Zephyr Rocket blast by our house
> during the early to mid
> 1960's. I watched the northbound ZR out of St.
> Louis between West Alton and
> Old Monroe during most of my early teen years. The
> southbound was harder to
> catch due to the early arrival time in St. Louis.
>
> On most days, the ZR would be composed of a single
> E7, 3-4 headend cars and
> a couple coaches. The Q and Rock Island each
> provided one loco and one or
> two coaches plus whatever headend equipment was
> needed. The trainsets would
> rotate on an every other day cycle. The train
> followed the Mississippi
> River valley from Burlington IA south, thus a single
> E unit was sufficient.
>
> The Qs passenger equipment would be mostly
> heavyweight head end cars and
> heavyweight coaches. As I recall, most were pullman
> green. The RI provided
> stainless steel coaches and silver painted
> heavyweight baggage cars.
>
> Occasionally, a boiler equipped Geep would be used
> as power. I remember an
> E8 on occasion, too. I recall seeing foreign road
> cars on occasion and
> observed a dome car on one occasion.
>
> Mike Cafferata
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Meyer" <cjmeyer_89@yahoo.com>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:04 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] the Zephyr Rocket
>
>
> > I need information on the St. Louis-Minneanapolis
> Zephyr Rocket consists
> and motive power on the Q's operations of the train.
> >
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