Nelson,
In the summer of 1942, my late parents took a day trip on the Q from
Berwyn, IL to Streator, IL and return. Between Berwyn and Aurora,,
they road a commuter train. At Aurora, they boarded a gas-electric
for the trip to Streator and return. The car that day, was #9845. Dad
had a Kodak Bantam Special which used 828 size film. He shot
Kodachrome transparency film on the trip. Unfortunately, film was
expensive back then and resources were limited, so he only took a few
photos. Several are of the #9845. The rest are of scenes along the
way and a couple Santa Fe trains at Streator. For the most part, the
color of those photos has held up well including the paint scheme on
#9845. About the same time, Dad built an HO scale model of #9845
using an early Walthers kit as a base. His model included a complete
interior with seats that he cast himself. I still have the model and
the seat molds that he made. The model is no longer operational. A
year later, Dad who was working for that new company in La grange,
Electro-Motive, was drafted into the Navy SeaBees units and spent the
rest of the war in the south Pacific.
As a side note, I sort of went along on the Streator trip, but I
wasn't born until the following January.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
On May 26, 2011, at 2:38 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Re: interurban single car from burlington 1950's
> Posted by: "Nelson Moyer" ku0a@mchsi.com ku0a
> Wed May 25, 2011 6:47 am (PDT)
>
>
>
> Thanks for the research, Steve. Now all I need to do is check
> Corbin, Holck
> and the BB index.
>
> The problem with the color books is that 1940s coverage is spotty
> due to the
> cost of color film back then. To an extent, that also applies to
> the early
> 1950s. From the mid-1950s on, coverage is good, but the best color
> coverage
> is in the 1960-70s. That leaves early transition modelers with few
> color
> photos, and the color quality of the earliest surviving photos
> isn't very
> good. Fortunately, the blackbird scheme persisted well into the
> quality
> color era, so we know what it looked like. Unfortunately, railroad
> structure
> were badly faded or repainted by then, so the photos aren't very
> helpful for
> determining color schemes. As for equipment utilization, it's
> fortunate that
> we can use both monochrome and color photos to sort out what
> operated where.
>
> Nelson
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