Hello Duncan. I have a photo of an E7 9919B dated 1958, at Chillicothe, MO.
It is pulling a baggage/RPO and the pendulum car.
Pass. service ran
between Hannibel and St.Joe.
Was good business until Chillicothe Business
College closed about 1955 or 56. Back then not every student had a
car!
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Duncan Cameron
<d.cameron@...> wrote:
>
> I've been going through some of
the locomotive assignment rosters I have and noticed that between 1950-1958
the Hannibal division has one E7 assigned to it, #9949. Now this motor was an
odd one already because of its number. It was the only one of the E7s not to
have an A or B attached to its number, and was not numbered sequentially with
the rest. It even shared a number with an E8 or 9 (can't remember which right
now). But my question has to do with why this one motor was assigned to the
Hannibal division. I've located one photo of it pulling train #12 into St.
Louis in the early 1950s, but other E7s pulled this train as well and none
were assigned to Hannibal. Anyone have any ideas?
> Duncan
Cameron
>