Years ago Lyman Cox had postcards of orig. photo
produced. Only thing not on PR copies were some wires
between poles in background. CY
--- "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net> wrote:
> Somewhere I read where this "drawing" was an actual
> photograph taken at the Galesburg roundhouse. The
> locomotives were positioned on the tracks leading to
> the turntable. After taken the photo was retouched
> by removing the roundhouse building in the
> background and adding the features in the clouds.
> I've seen many reproduction prints at trains shows
> and on the internet through the years.
>
> R.W. Brown, Jr.
> Galesburg, IL
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Are the five locomotives together the same drawing
> as the BRHS uses
> on the home page of their website? I think that that
> drawing was used
> by CB&Q on one of their early 1960's calendars and
> maybe even annual
> reports. They called this image something like
> "Parade of
> Progress". The shovelnose Zephyr is the Silver
> Charger from the
> General Pershing Zephyr.
>
> When I rode the Milwaukee Road #261 steam excursion
> train from
> Chicago to galesburg in 2002, the souveneer/snack
> car had prints of
> that artwork for $30 that they claimed were from the
> CB&Q days and
> found in a Twin Cities warehouse.
>
> A nostalgic metal sign company called Desparate
> Enterprises made a
> metla sign version of it in the mid 1990's (maybe
> the manufacturer of
> your friend's sign?). They made five or six signs
> with Burlington
> Route artwork, as well as several from other
> railroads. About the
> time that I got interested, I learned from the local
> diner / pool
> table store that Deparate Enterprises was
> out-of-business due to some
> type of leagal matters with the owner of the Indian
> Motorcycles
> trademarks. Sometimes you can find their BR signs at
> train shows. I
> recently saw Deparate Enterprises metal tractor
> sighns at Menards.
> They have an active website now, but unfortunately
> no BR offerings.
>
> Another metal sign manufacturer named Ande Rooney
> has a circular
> Pioneer Zephyr sign in light blue, dark blue, and
> white. I think it
> is based on a CB&Q luggage sticker.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bill
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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