Jack,
I show a trip on my list on 05/21/61. I don't know where it started from or where it was going, but here is a photo of the trip at Orion, IL with a heavyweight train consist. Orion is just a little south of the Quad Cities, so it may be the train that you saw.
However, I am certain that this is not the NRHS trip that I am thinking of as I was still in high school in May, 1961. I graduated in June and went to Bradley University in Peoria in September, 1961. I chased the trip with a fellow that I met in Peoria, in May, 1962 when #4960 visited there with a Choo Choo special. I think the trip that I recall with the NRHS may have been in May, 1963.
I added your information to this trip as a possible identification. Thanks.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:00 am (PDT)
I believe the trip out of Davenport with 4960 was in May 1961 as I was
on hand, but did not ride, and I moved from the Quad Cities that summer,
so it would not have been 1962. I have photos of 4960 that my brother
took. He was not a rail fan, but was an art student so the photos are
more "artsy" in nature.
Jack Ferris
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