Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

[rgortowski@aol.com]

I forgot to mention - an 11 car train with one express box on the head and one pre-war stainless car in the middle.  The rest of the cars are heavyweight.

 

Rich G.

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From: rgortowski <rgortowski@aol.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 9:36 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

 

Duncan,

 

Per the caption, it's the detouring Exposition Flyer, due to a wash-out on the main.  The book was copyrighted in 1947.  It's a very nice, large photo of the train coming off of the bridge.

 

Rich G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 9:04 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

 



That might have been the Zephyr Rocket.  It was still crossing over to Illinois until the early fifties.

What other trains might it have been?

Duncan Cameron

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From: John D. Mitchell, Jr.

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:31 PM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Tracks at Quincy

 

  Kalmbach put out a Burlington photo album in the late 40's or early 50's showing the Quincy yards with a Q passenger train behind E-5's coming off of the old bridge and showing the "bay" bridge. BTW, I know a man, who as a teenager, rode his pony across the bay bridge! 

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