Brad...
As mgruber000 responded in a prior post, the shops are still there. As it
happened, I was scanning an aerial photo of the area between Austin Blvd and
the
diesel shop which was taken March 3, 1968, for a project I was working on.
It shows it just west of the intersection of Ogden Ave at 31st St. It was
interesting to try to determine which engines were in the terminal. One of
them
appears to be an F?A, F?B, GP7, GP7, F?B, F?A lashup. One of the GP's was
blackbird, one redbird.
Speaking of what a difference time makes, when I was in college in 1956 we
wrote to the Q to ask for specifics regarding the white aluminum color in order
to paint some Globe/Athearn F units. To our delight, the Q responded by
giving us an authorization to go to this diesel facility and pick up a quart of
the
actual paint. After disolvinging two of the shells, we learned how to spray
very quick, light coats of the prototype paint. The paint jobs were a bit on
the crude side, but no one can argue that they aren't the correct shade.
.............Ed Stapleton
In a message dated 2/7/05 5:24:00 PM Central Standard Time,
bradbunnin@comcast.net writes:
I'm brand-new to the group. It's good to know you're here.
And I have a question, which Dave Lotz thought a member might be able to
answer for
me:
When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, my grandmother and I visited the CBQ
diesel
facility in Cicero. Does anyone know the address, and what's on that site
now? My
memories are fond ones, because a mechanic allowed me, at age 10 or 11, to
enter the pit
beneath an F unit (which one I cannot say!). Can you imagine that happening
today?
Brad
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