Gerald,
Can you supply me with the current address for Milepost 206? Their
website hasn't been updated since 2006.
Thanx,
Gene Semon
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Gerald A. Edgar" <vje68@...> wrote:
>
> Last message was to thank Hubert (as many of us have done) for
depot
> drawings and I could have sworn the "To" was to him, not to CB&Q
Yahoo.
> However to make it up, here's my amateur reviews of 2 new
Burlington
> books & 1 Burlington calendar
>
> 2009 Burlington Calendar from MP206 Publishing
(Burlington, IA)
>
> It's 8&1/2 x 11" with 13 photos (Jan 09-Jan 10) 5 are color views,
7
> b/w & 1 sepia - all are sharp and several, as in past years, are
> the 'where in the heck did they find this?" types. Included is a
view
> of a QO&KC coal train led by #32, a Baldwin 2-8-0 blt for K.C. &
> Northern Connecting as their #513 in 1900; lasted til 1927. There
is
> also a "29 builders photo of an ACF fbus or Burl. Trans. Co. (love
the
> brass marker on rear); wood piledriver 204607; 4960 @ Chapin, IL;
4-4-0
> #370 with a bunnting bedecked train and a giant "A" on its boiler
front
> taken WAY back when. ANY idea what the occaision was?
> A double header passenger train taken in Osceola, IA in 1914 is a
rarity
> As in past years, the balance of photos from different eras, all
> corners of the Q and every aspect of the RR possible are crammed
into
> an outstanding work including motorcar #9735. Amazing what keeps
> popping up!
>
> "Quincy Route" (QO&KC/I&StL - expanded & revised)
>
> The long out-of-print Hogback Road is reprised in this expanded
(116
> pp, 8&1/2" x 11" softbound) and rewritten version by Michael Johns
&
> the late Ralph Cooper with assistance from Jim Reisdorff of So.
Platte
> Press (available there) but published by Milepost 208 (Chilicothe,
> MO). Photos are marginal in quality (one, the RR gave up in "39
with
> parts abandoned then, others remaining with CB&Q and two, most are
> copied from the 1st book). The Iowa & St. Louis is also covered
and
> maps are a plus as is the roster (copied from R&LHS issue #151 of
1984
> but erroneously credited to BRHS in one place, CB&Q H.S. in
another) A
> A 1916 QO&KC ETT is also copied. There is an excellent
bibliogrpahy &
> a decent index. For those of you unfamiliar with the QO&KC, it was
> owned by CB&Q from 1908 onward & its 'table' appears in all CB&Q
public
> TT's thru the 30's. A granger & coal hauler running across
northern MO
> (with the I&StL serving as a branch to Sedan, IA) it was the weak
> sister of the Burlington Route.
>
> "Last Train to Wymore" by David Doering
>
> This is the continuance of the famous "Wymore Story" (4 printings
to
> date!) by Richard Kistler, also publ. by So. Platte Press.
Indeed, Mr.
> Kistler provides the Forward. Approx. 80 sharp photos, nearly all
> color grace its 56 pp along with maps and my favorite aspect,
details
> on every industry on the line from CB&Q days to BN abandonment.
> Although this is a book about a branch operated by BN, the right-
of-way
> & structures shown are all Q and where applicable, Mr. Doering
provides
> the original Q loco # of BN GP'7 & SD-9's he photographed. I
normally
> only model/collect & read about CB&Q; anything after the spring of
1970
> is verboten! But the Wymore branch was CB&Q thru & thru and was
one of
> the last parts of the Q to be served by a BN 'local' as it had
been for
> many years before. If you model or have an interest in Lines West
in
> the 1960's, just pretend the green paint is red!
>
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