Re: [CBQ] Fast Mail Train Number Question

[Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com]

 Q public TT May 1938 shows No. 15 with name FAST MAIL and note that "Carries 
baggage only from Chicago to Omaha and pints beyond.

ETT Ottumwa and Creston Divisions October 26 1958 shows No. 15 (Daily 
passenger) operating only to Burlington

No. 29 (Daily Mail) operating Chicago-Galesburg-Ottumwa-Creston-Council 
Bluffs-UP Transfer-Omaha.

Nelson if you are letting this matter keep you up at night you "better take a 
pill"...I don't think that there is anyone currently still living on the earth 
who can give a totally accurate picture of why the name and operation changed 
over the years which it apparently did.

Pete






-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Moyer <ku0a@mchsi.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 1:09 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Fast Mail Train Number Question


 

I've been looking at timetables and books with timetable pages, and there is
a listing in 1947 and 1953 employee TTs for Train 15, Daily Passenger, yet
the Public TTs in some books by notable authors lists Train 15 as the Fast
Mail. A late 1950s TT and the 75th anniversary article by David Morgan talks
about Train 29 as the Fast Mail with no passenger service. The BRHS
Publication Index has a listing that reads, "Fast Mail train numbers &
consists Z43 p.16". I don't have access to Zephyr No. 43, so would someone
be so kind as to tell me what it has to say about Fast Mail train numbers
for various dates. A scan would be even better.

Nelson







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