David, welcome to the list! I'm also from Toronto -- modelling the CB&Q in
Keokuk, Iowa! This list has been a great help to me in piecing together
information about locations hundreds of miles from home. I trust they'll do
the same for you.
Duncan Cameron
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Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Newbie: Psgr service - Denver-Sterling-Alliance; GE forum
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> Hi. I'm new to this list, so first I'll introduce myself. I'm
> chiefly a Union Pacific modeler (forgive me!) in HO despite living in
> eastern Canada all my life. I also collect HO models of SNCF (French
> national railways) conventional passenger equipment for the 1980's
> and early 1990's. Nevertheless, on my very first "real" railfan trip
> one of my chief objectives was the "racetrack" in Chicago, and I've
> been back many times since. Sadly, I never saw it under the Q - only
> BN and BNSF. But's it's one impressive operation. I also try to get
> to see the Pioneer and Nebraska Zephyrs whenever I'm in Chicago.
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> My main area of modeling interest is between Lodgepole and Sidney,
> NE. At Sidney is an interchange with the former C&S line between
> Alliance and Sterling. I'm planning to include that interchange in
> my layout design, and am wondering if anyone can advise me as to what
> equipment was used on trains 6-302 and 301-7 between Denver and
> Alliance via Sterling and Sidney between 1952 and 1971. Also, what
> kind of depot did the C&S have in Sidney, and where was it located?
> In my dreams I envisage a mini-Zephyr with a shiny passenger F and a
> Budd train of three cars - baggage/RPO, coach and lounge - but my
> sense of reality says "mixed" or "motor train". Any help would be
> appreciated. As for freight, I figured an SD9 would do the trick.
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> And, while I'm here, I may as well plug my own forum on General
> Electric locomotives. Knowing the Q was an early supporter of
> GE's "Universal" line, I figure there ought to be a few GE fans on
> this list! The GE forum currently has about 260 members, up from
> about 100 a month ago, and the threads now under way are pretty
> interesting. For example, one concerns the reasons for the
> dissolution of the Alco-GE partnership in 1953, and another is
> exploring just what role Cooper-Bessemer played in supplying 7FDL16
> engines from the late Fifties through the present. Members of the
> forum have also decided to form a GE Locomotive Society, and we're
> planning a first general meeting in Erie, PA, for late May 2005. If
> you have any interest in the forum, please do check it out at
> gelocos@yahoogroups.com
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> Thanks.
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> David Garon
> Toronto, ON
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