Re: [CBQ] Gas-Electric 9845

["Tim O'Connor timboconnor@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I have an undated scan of the 9845 at La Salle IL that I downloaded
about
14 years ago... I may have grabbed it from Ebay or some other web
site.

Also a 1958 photo of CB&Q 9767 at St Joseph in aluminum paint. Were
any other
Q gas-electrics painted this way?

Tim O'Connor


> Thanks for the clarification
> regarding the eBay pirate and the photo of 9845. I didn't think it felt
> right.
>
> Also, thanks for the link to the outstanding Otto Perry photo of train
> #42 at Billings. The Denver Public Library is a real treasure.
>
> Chris Atkins
> Argyle, TX
>
>
> On 12/4/14, 10:02 AM, Hol Wagner
> holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]
> wrote:
> >   
> >
> > This eBay seller pirates every image he can lay his hands on and then
> > sells poor quality duplicate slides or low res scan prints of them with
> > no real idea of what or where they are.  This photo was actually
> > taken in the late 1950s when the 9845 was in use on the run from Creston,
> > Iowa, down to St. Joseph, Mo.  So, no, it's not in Montana. 
> > But during the Depression the Q did indeed run a motor car all the way to
> > Billings on the line from Lincoln and Alliance.  Motor cars 9767 and
> > 9768 were used on the run, and here's a link to an Otto Perry view of
> > 9768 and its single combine at the Billings depot: 
> >
> > http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/63399/rec/2
> >  
> > Hol

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Posted by: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@comcast.net>

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