Tom-
The "partial" compliment is only due to its posting on the CB&Q list, where
interests are somewhat focused. As a Chicago
History fan, the book is more than great! Like the A.W. Johnson photos, I
only wish that the photographer's interests had
gravitated towards the CB&Q. Al went over to the Darkside (C&NW) way too early
and missed out on a great deal of CB&Q
that could have been photographed.
The coverage of other road's services is more than worth the price of
admission!!! Now if only someone had photographed the
Chicago, Millington & Western narrow gauge..... or the Hamilton, Lacon &
Eastern..... or ......
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Burg
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Commercial post - New Q Book
Thanks, Charlie, for the partial compliment on the Suburbans book. It is fair
to say that the CB&Q is not the main focus, though it would have been egregious
to have left it out. The main reason the pix have been previously published is
our own photo CD, which many people have not seen for a variety of reasons. The
back cover, however, is a Q shot. Tom Burg
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Vlk
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Commercial post - New Q Book
I purchased the book but it is weakest in CB&Q. Most of the photos have been
previously published or are similar to ones that we've seen before. (no action
shots of Suburban Tank Engines, the engine facilities at Riverside, the
Suburban Engine Shed at Western Avenue, etc., etc.
That being said, the coverage of the Wabash, C&EI, Wisconsin Central,
Milwaukee Road and the IC Addision branch make the book worthwhile anyway......
On another subject, I ran across a tremendous research tool while spending
some time at the Library of Congress.... a online service called ProQuest...
which the LOC and many local libraries subscribe to. My librarian wife informed
me that if I would come into the library once in a while or ask her she could
have told me that we not only have the service at the Arlington Heights Library
but it is available online to AH resident card holders. The service has digital
full text OCR scans of the historic Chicago Tribune.....
I was able to determine, from accounts of a IC train excursion train that was
rear ended at Lawndale Avenue by a CB&Q express, that the IC's Chicago, Madison
& Northern (the Iowa line) connected to the Q at LaVerne and the IC used the Q
and the St. Charles Air Line to get to their station for a few years, as the IC
was very slow in completing their line into Chicago.
Interesting stuff!!!
Charlie Vlk
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