Here's the
MTZ Service Record I have for the 9903 - MTZ.
Dave Lotz
Pooler, GA
- October 8,
1935 - MTZ leaves the Budd Company plant - Philadelphia to New York via the
PRR, the to Bethlehem, PA via the Lehigh Valley RR
- October 9
- On display in Wlkes-Barr, PA and Ithaca, NY
- October 10
- On display in Erie, PA
- October
11 - Moved over NYC to Chicago
- October 12 - MTZ made its appearance on Burlington rails in
Chicago
- October 13
- Test run from Chicago to the Twin Cities and back - 882 miles in 12
hours
- October 14 - MTZ was shortened by crews at West
Burlington by removing the baggage car to prepare it for the speed trials
planned in conjunction with the Republican Valley Jubilee at McCook,
Nebraska.
- October 22
- Reaching Creston in mid-afternoon, A Western tour of Burlington
Railroad directors and officers (see note 1), other guests, (see note 2) as
well as a bevy of press representatives transferred from a steam-powered train to the Mark Twain
Zephyr
- October
23rd - Speed trials where the 9903 reached a maximum speed of 122
m.p.h. for a distance of three miles between Edison & Oxford,
NE
- MTZ
returned to W. Burlington to reconnect the baggage car
- October
25th - Christening of the the new Mark Twain Zephyr in Hannabal,
MO.
- October
27th - The first regular service trip of the Mark Twain was made from Hannibal
to St. Louis
- October 28th - The normal STL-Burlington-STL
schedule began at St. Louis (Trains 42&43)
- May 31,
1936 - Reassigned the MTZ and the 9900 to be the Advanced Denver Zephyrs -
Chicago - Denver (Trains 1&10)
- November 8,
1936 - Removed from Advanced Zephyr when new DZ inaugurated and began
Chicago to Twin Cities service (Trains
22&23)
- December 18,
1936 - Returned to its intended route out of St. Louis to
Burlington (Trains 42&43) after new TCZ trainsets begin
service
- September
of 1938 - Assigned with 9902 to the St. Louis to Kansas City route of the
Ozark State Zephyr (Trains 32&33)
- March 1942
- St. Louis to Burlington (Trains 42&43)
- January of 1953 - Assigned to service with the 9900
between Galesburg, Illinois and St. Joseph, Missouri, via Quincy (Trains
3&4)
- May of 1957
- St. Louis to Burlington (Trains 42&43)
- May of 1963
- Retired from service - stored at West Burlington
- June of
1960 - Purchased by Mr. Frank Dashner of Glenwood, Iowa, but the train
remained at West Burlington
- June of
1962 - Acquired by Ernie Hays for $6,500 and placed on exhibit at the Midwest
Old Thresher Association grounds in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
- 1972
- Purchased by Alex Barkett of the Building Leasing
Corporation, and moved to Kansas City
- September
of 1987 - Train was moved to the Mid America Car
Corporation
- 1984
- Dave Stimson a player for the Kansas City Chiefs purchased the
equipment
- 1987
- Train was sold to John C. Lowe and was moved to the Joliet
area
- 2008 - Train was sold to Ben
Butterworth and moved to Mid-America Railcar in Madison, IL
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