Re: [CBQ] Re: Last Q Motor

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

Duncan...My best advice re info on Southern Iowa Utilities RR...if that's the actual correct name..would be the Iowa Chapter of NRHS..This road was electric powered and said NRHS group owned an ex WCF&N car which they ran excursions on.  I note that some of George Niles movies are now available..George was the instigator of most of the stuff that Chapter did.

I presume you have Corbin's  ACROSS IOWA book..  

IIRC the Iowa Southern was strictly a switching line at Centerville with a branch up to Moravia...That's about all I know..and some of you guys may say I don't even know what I think I know????

Didn't Donald Rumsfeld say something like that...it was a bit more complex, but was quite humorous "back in the day"

Pete

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From: Duncan Cameron c.duncan.cameron@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2016 6:45 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Last Q Motor

 

Pete, can you tell me anything about the Southern Iowa Utilities railroad?  If it interchanged with the K&W at Centreville, I'd like to learn about it and add it to my write-up on the K&W.

Duncan Cameron

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:17 AM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pete

 

As Bob Hope used to say, thanks for the memoires.

 

If 9769 had controls at each end, was there a reason for your engineer not using them both?

9769 was single-ended until it was converted from baggage-mail to baggage in about 1957 but I don’t know how firm that date is.

 

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 06 July 2016 15:42
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Last Q Motor

 

 

All the photos I've seen of the '69 show it as a double end car with both ends painted in the red-yellow paint scheme.  I don't remember the rear end being painted at the time I was there and I do know that our engineer never ran the car from the rear end..We backed up with the waycar ahead from Clay Center to Sutton.

 

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