That sounds much better than the 1963 date I had...
Dave
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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