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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Cameron Junction to Kansas City
From: William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:57:40 -0600
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Pete,

It was, indeed, opened to traffic in 1949, 100 years after the  
beginning of the Q. . Train #77 was the premier service and Red  
Grange, #77, the "galloping Ghost" of University of Illinois football  
fame (later the Bears and earlier, Wheaton High School) participated  
in the ceremonies. There is a well know publicity photo of him poised  
on the front corner of a "F" unit about to crack a bottle of  
Champagne over the nose anti-climber.  At that time, Train #77 was  
supposedly also called the Galloping Ghost.

Bill Barber

On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:54 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Re: Cameron Junction to Kansas City
> Posted by: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
> Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:21 pm (PST)
>
> A good guess sez that it was begun and completed about the time of  
> the Q's 100th birthday.
>
> pete



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