I've got #9903 being pulled from service on April
27, 1958. That would fit the sale dates. Was it run by the private
owners between 1958 and 1963?
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 11:46
AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] further question about
assignments of #9903
May of 1963 - Retired from service - stored at West
Burlington -- are you sure about this date?
The entries following
show purchases of the equipment by private parties in 1960 and
1962.
--- On Thu, 12/1/11, Dave Lotz <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
From:
Dave Lotz <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net>
Subject:
RE: [CBQ] further question about assignments of #9903
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 2:34
PM
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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