Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora

["LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

June 12, 2014
 
Charlie and Group - If that's the case with the C&NW, there may be hope  
that the resurrected UP Big Boy No. 4014 might make it to the Windy City  
someday in the distant future. Now, that would really be SOMETHING to see. Best 
 
Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL   
 
 
In a message dated 6/12/2014 11:37:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:




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_ (mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com) , <_cvlk@..._ 
(mailto: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