At 07:33 AM 2/8/2005, you wrote:
> The shops are still there today. Not sure of the street
>address but it's at 31st st and Ogden ave in Cicero. No CB&Q stuff to
>be found.I grew up living acoss from what was the Roby yards at 17th &
>Hoyne. It's nice to remember thos days.
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Yes, it is nice to remember. I grew up not all that far from your or the "Q"
at 34th and Western, behind the Campbell Soup plant. Used to walk down to the
end of the alley and climb "the railroad hill" to watch trains of the Pennsy,
C&O, B&O and B&OCT go by through what I've recently read in TRAINS mag. as the
"Western Avenue Corridor". The Pennsy had a switcher stationed at Campbells
and I would watch it kick reefers and boxcars behind the plant . . . way cool!
(The "hill" was also good for sledding down in the winter, and in warmer
weather in the brush on the side "hunting" pigeons and rabbits, playing army
on, building a club house on, catching spiders, snakes or grasshoppers, playing
"King of the Hill" on, etc., all within a couple minute walk or shorter bike
ride from the house).
My first HO passenger train set as a kid in the early 1960's was a Burlington.
Several years ago, in the late 1980's, I was deciding on a prototype RR to
model as I was returning to the hobby after having re-caught the train bug
after close to a 15 year absence. I eventually decided on the Burlington,
remembering that old (Tyco?) passenger set, with the name of a railroad on it I
had never heard before (amidst the Santa Fe's, Pennsy, UP's, D&TGW's it seemed
everyone was modeling at the time, at least according to the model rr mags I
was perusing, but I wanted to model something "completely different".) So I
picked the Burlington, knowing nothing about it and seeing practically nothing
available commercially. Which reminds me, at my first model rr swap meet I
almost bought a neat looking Burlington switcher IN CHINESE RED! Luckily, the
man selling it was moral and ethical enough to tell me the railroad never had
any switchers in that color scheme, after I mentioned to him that I was
building a layout based on the Burlington, and wanted to learn about the
railroad and try to model much of it accurately.
Anyway, the point is, I ended up modeling a railroad I had never heard of based
on a passenger train I received as a seven or eight year old, while watching
other "big name" railroads operate practically in my back yard, while
unknowingly having "Zephyr heaven" literally down the street from me!
Who woulda thunk?
Paul (Kossart) - "The CB&Q Guy"
Peru, IL *USA*
Modeling 1960's in HO.
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