RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora

["'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Ray and list-

Yes, my grandfather took me and I remember sitting in the grandstand for the 
show but not much else.

I imagine the UP would have routed the Big Boy over the C&NW so it probably 
wasn’t what I saw.

I also remember seeing the GM Powerama exhibit on the lakefront but don’t 
recall any details other than I was there.

Charlie Vlk

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:49 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora

 

  

According to the Chcago Railroad Fair 1948-1949 web site, a postcard from the 
fair shows a Big Boy (the 4000?) as having been part of the UP exhibit at the 
Fair.

 

http://www.railarchive.net/rrfair/rrfair_pc01.htm

 

http://www.railarchive.net/rrfair/index.html

 

Were you there?  I was (as a young boy).

 

Ray Quisenberry

 

  
---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <cvlk@...> wrote :

I remember seeing an articulated being hauled dead in a train through Clarendon 
Hills.   I am thinking it must have been after the Railroad Fair was over…..it 
seems it was a westbound.    My grandfather was building a group of houses just 
east of the overhead crossing of Route 83 backing up to the south side of the 
tracks and it must have been in late 1949.  I would have been 4 years old at 
the time….and, like later years, didn’t have a camera to record the event!

Charlie Vlk