My favorite shot of #45 leaving CUS in 1939:
http://photoswest.org:8080/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?fullRecord+11376+594+4175+940+0
Bob Herrick
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, rgortowski@... wrote:
>
>
> Bill,
>
> Interesting - in 1950, numbers 45/52 were the head-end heavy
> Chicago/Minneapolis local that was truly a "Slow boat to Minneapolis." It
> had a painfully long run time. In 1947 the GN/Q re-instituted the Oriental
> Limited as the 2nd transcontinental train (behind the Empire Builder). The
> OL was replaced by the Western Star in 1951.
>
> Rich Gortowski
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Barber <clipperw@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 11:05 am
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Twin Cities Trains
>
>
>
>
> According to John Strauss in his book "Burlington Route Passenger
> Trains Volume One", the Mississippi Riverview was inaugurated on
> April 1, 1931, following the discontinuance of the Oriental Limited
> on March 31. It carried the same train numbers as the Oriental
> Limited did while on the Q portion of the run. While the name,
> Mississippi Riverview may have been dropped with the inauguration of
> the Twin Cities Zephyrs in 1935, the train and it's numbers continued
> on for some years. The numbers were Tr. 45 and 52. Information
> concerning the Mississippi Riverview is located on page 39 of John's
> book. It also shows the typical consist which included: an express
> car Chicago - Minot, an express car Chicago - Seattle, a baggage
> express car Chicago - St. Paul, an RPO baggage Chicago - Minneapolis,
> a baggage express car Chicago - Minneapolis, a combine Chicago -
> Minneapolis, one or more chair cars Chicago - Minneapolis, a dining
> car Chicago - Minneapolis, and a Parlor-Lounge-Solarium car, either
> Mississippi or Riverview, Chicago - Minneapolis. The two parlor cars
> had been purchased from the SP&S.
>
> Bill Barber
> Gravois Mills, MO
>
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:14 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > Re: Twin Cities Trains
> > Posted by: "Gerald & Virginia Edgar" vje68@... gaedgar66
> > Thu Jul 8, 2010 7:49 am (PDT)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The Mississippi Riverview was not overlooked - it's a matter of
> > GN's EPB, NP's NCL & Q's Blackhawk having their names unchanged
> > from 'way back when' to BN (& into Amtrak in case of EPB/NCL)
> > whereas the Twin's took over the day train name in the 30's. If you
> > had been a railfan, traveler, travel agent, etc in the first 1/3 of
> > the century, the Mississippi Riverview was well known. I'll bring
> > some of their brochures to Spring meet (have to miss our annual
> > this fall). Pre-Twin TT's also extolled the M.R.
> >
> > Gerald
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
CBQ-digest@yahoogroups.com
CBQ-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
|