Louis-
I guess it would be something…..but an S4a or even the K2 running would be
really something!
As a modeler I am amazed at the seemingly endless demand for miniature Big
Boys….of which only 25 examples were limited to a couple of divisions in the
middle of nowhere.
Somewhat like the PRR GG1…..of which probably a less than 100 of the models
sold ever ran under wire much less catenary.
Charlie Vlk
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:42 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora
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
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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
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