Re: [CBQ] Way of the Zephyrs, not Everywhere West.

["Duncan Cameron c.duncan.cameron@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

The motorcars on the K&W had been discontinued in 1954,  Beginning a year or two before that a combine had been added to the rear of the scheduled freight to create a mixed train.  About 1961 that train was cut back to Monday, Wednesday, Friday.  The combine was destroyed near Alexandria in 1963 and that seems to have been the end of passenger traffic unless some provision was made for carrying people in the waycar.

Duncan

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

That photo of SW1 #9151 was taken by J. David Ingles and appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Classic Trains.  It's CB&Q mixed train 77 which ran from Fort Madison to Bloomfield, IA, shown crossing Sugar Creek between Viele and Donnellson.  The date would have been January 23, 1967.

The line is long gone, but the Donnellson depot has been preserved:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4177910

msw

largofl

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Don don.bowen@earthlink.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

On 1/12/2017 6:51 PM, Duncan Cameron c.duncan.cameron@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:
> Thanks Don. With the combine on the rear of the train it must be 1963
> or earlier.

I do not remember any passenger cars. The tracks went past my high
school in Kahoka and I remember a once a week or less mixed freight. I
was there 1960 to 1961. My grade school was in Ashton but too far from
the tracks to see or hear anything.

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Don Bowen --AD0NB--

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Posted by: Duncan Cameron <c.duncan.cameron@gmail.com>

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