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Doug..When you get your "round tuit" and are working on the photos why don't you call me and/or e mail and we can talk it through in "real time"...BTW I'm meeting with Tom Jurgens this evening to finalize a presentation of my "stuff" next week at our Lincoln Railfans Club. I think, and hope that the stuff Tom has for me are from the pix you use. I think they are. I need to get all my stuff organized and correctly labeled before I descend more deeply into my dotage. Pete
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From: 'Doug Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Jan 3, 2018 10:42 am Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Villisca Info? Doug Harding
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Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:03 AM To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Villisca Info? Careful with those pictures...The ones taken from the hotel window of mainline trains were taken summer 1953...The ones showing the VO engine and the coach were taken winter 53-54..Probably about February 54.
Feel free to ask me details. I gave all those photo to Doug to scan and may have mis labeled them for him or "misspoke"...about the time they were taken, I do have a "semi" log of our trips and what we did and when which "one of these days when my "round tuit" come it I'll post it on here.
Pete
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From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups..com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Jan 3, 2018 8:56 am Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Villisca Info? Lenny I think those VO engines were assigned at St. Joe...I think at that time..winter 53-54...probably 54....my parents and I were going or had been to Ames to "Check out" Iowa State College for my continuing education...At that time that engine would have been being used on the Villisca-Corning MO. branch. In all the times I saw this run over the years 49-56 I never saw one on that line in actual use..Usually an SW 1 did the trick for that short train. I also saw and have some photos of one of those VO's used on a work train at Phelps right after the 52 flood. The Villisca-Corning branch belonged to the St. Joe Division..which you probably know and Villisca, itself, was Creston Division.
I never saw a VO actually running on that branch...In 51 when Jim and I made our first "overnighter" Corning-Villisca the regular train was 94-93 and there was a second "Clarinda Turn numbered 97-98 IIRC which used a 44 tonner. That run came off when the mail came off 93-94 and, hence, there was no need to make the connection at Corning with 20 and 27 and 93 or 94 could do the Clarinda switching and make the run down to Shambaugh when necessary.
Pete
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From: Walter Ohrnell wohrnell@kc.rr.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jan 2, 2018 8:25 pm Subject: [CBQ] Re: Villisca Info? Interesting there was a VO-1000 apparently assigned there. Red Oak only rated a 44 tonner. Maybe Pete could remember when the pictures were taken.
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