Re: [CBQ] Pioneer days at Polo, IL May 1934

[James Vivian <jvivian765@yahoo.com>]

Noel, I'm back after a short stint at the VA with bronchitis. I would say you're correct with the age of my late father. He'll be gone 20 years this year, aged 50 and 1 week. I inherited the size 12 and the thrill of an "Aztec side-step" the clutch, mat the accelerator. Last of the Mohicans. Riding behind steam on the main (as one can find it these days) provides the same spine tingling thrill. I'll have to dig for some of the old "Q" stations along the C&I that  I've collected over the last few years.  

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:41 AM, Noel Crawford <georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net> wrote:

 

James,
  It could be a '34. They were pretty much alike back then. Small changes like headlights etc but overall pretty much the same. I guess the depression made it that way. I am trying to get a close look at the headlights in the photo and they look like they are mounted above the fenders. Later versions were mounted in the fenders. I am sitting here looking at the front end of dad's Buick in the background of me at 2yrs being held by Marine Lance Cpl Uncle Dale Romsdale. The headlights are high mounted.  Also the rear wheel is kinda different than I remember but Cady, Pontiac, and Buick all had interchangeable parts as I recall. All had bodies by Fisher.
  Your dad and I must be about the same age. I was in RVN in 68 and 69 at Tripler AMC in Honor WuWu . We use to do drag races in Grand Island NB on a runway that was the flight test runway for B-29's that were built there. The city made it available to dragsters so we wouldn't do it out on the highway.  Saw my first rail dragsters there with a parachute for braking. Burning Nitro. Utterly amazing.
Noel



On 1/15/2014 10:26 AM, James Vivian wrote:

 

Thanks for the correction Noel. A Buick would have been my next guess. I've got some of my Dad's old  8mm films converted to disc and there is one tearing it up at the 'Rockford Dragway' (Byron) about 1968 or'69. Well, if it's a 1936, then whomever wrote 'May 1934' was a bit off. Unless Buick was the way to time travel back then instead of the later Delorean in later years. Your pops sold it for a dollar per year, huh?

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:23 AM, Noel Crawford <georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net> wrote:

 

1936 Buick straight eight. Cannot miss that big trunk bump. My dad had one all through the war. Sold it for $50 scrap in 1950. I was heart broken.
noel




On 1/15/2014 8:44 AM, jvivian765@yahoo.com wrote:

 

The following photos were given to me by a retired 'Q' section foreman and are used with his permission. Unfortunately the photographer is unknown but at least he had the foresight to preserve the future. Both shots show the coming east  version  from the Highway 26 overpass and the 2 westbound views are from the IC's 'Gruber'. Lower quadrant semaphores and tell-tails as well. I've adjusted the contrasts which are a slightly better result over the prints given me. An observer can be seen on the sitting on the the rail of the house track. The auto, I believe to be an Oldsmobile or Pontiac. Enjoy, Jim 

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