I believe by the time you saw the train, the ex-CZ F's had been downgraded to
freight service only.
--- On Mon, 5/3/10, fuchst900 <fuchst900@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: fuchst900 <fuchst900@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q “Night Crawler”
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 9:06 AM
I remember this train as a boy of 10 or 11. I lived at Campion, about
4 miles south of Loveland. Seems like the Northbound came through around
10:30-11 PM at night. It also seems to me it was an E unit, 4 HW baggage/mail
cars and a silver HW coach on the end. I lived close to the tracks and have
seen the cars "lock up the brakes" to avoid running into it at the grade
crossing. To a boy of my age that train really flew but I have no idea of the
real speed. Once I was walking the tracks south to Berthoud Lake and the
Southbound kinda surprised me. I really jumped to get out of the way! Even
though the engineer was on the horn, it still seemed like I was being overtaken
quite quickly. I do have a question: was this ever pulled by F- units?. In the
aforementioned incident, I thought it was an F-unit. I didnt know much about
engines at that age but was impressed that the engine was much shorter than was
normally observed? I dont think the Fs
had steam generators except the silver F3s on the CBQ and this was C&S track
by my home?
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups. com, John Manion <railbass@.. .> wrote:
> Hol Wagner mentions the "Night Crawler" in his book *The Colorado Road, *as
> it was a C&S train, no. 29-30, which operated until Sept 2, 1967.... .
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