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Thanks for posting that one Hol...I had my first..and only...ride as a paying passenger on the DZ from Denver to Lincoln in 1948...I had been to camp near Estes Park that summer...my grandfather took me out via the Exposition Flyer...I remember getting to stand out on the observation car platform somewhere between Ft. Morgan and Denver. We came back on Busses to Denver after my camp period was over and those in charge saw that we got on our trains in proper manner. I went immediately to the Dome car and rode there all the way to Lincoln. "Just so ya know"..I was 12.
Reason I said.."as a paying passenger"...I was flagman on second section of the DZ (running with green signals) as Second No. 1 from Lincoln to Hastings...summer 1956.
My other most memorable "Pay trip" was as brakeman on the Pioneer Zephyr running as Train 44 from Lincoln to St. Joe..June 1958.
Can't do that stuff anymore...Great memories for me.
Pete
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From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 12:48 pm Subject: [CBQ] Denver Zephyr Sign [1 Attachment]
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When I came to Denver in 1949 we lived for a time in a downtown hotel on 17th Street, and one of my strongest memories is of the illuminated and animated Denver Zephyr sign on the attached postcard. The sign was a mixture of neon and incandescant bulbs that blinked off and on is rapid succession to give the impression the Zephyr was at speed. There was a similar sign a block or two away for the Rocky Mountain Rocket, with an E6 on the point. In this postcard view the streetcar tracks are gone but trolley buses are still in use, which dates the scene to between June 1950, when the last streetcars ran, and 1955, when the trolley buses were replaced with diesel buses.
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