Re: [CBQ] Old Eli

["John via Groups.Io" <stell_john=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

My grandfather ran the OWL'S Nest coal mine at Canton, Illinois in the 1920's.

Also the Worlds of Fun locomotive in Kansas City has ELI painted on tender.

On Thursday, October 25, 2018, 9:47:34 PM CDT, Rupert Gamlen <gamlenz@hotmail.com> wrote:

Back in January 2015, there was a short discussion about Old Eli, the CB&Q’s owl. He was used in various advertisements, there was the Eli Limited between Chicago and Kansas City, an Old Eli dining car on the Kansas City Flyer (renamed from the Eli Limited?) and there was the Fast Owl Express between Chicago and St Louis. The 1901 advert for the Eli Express for stated it had been running for 16 years so presumably it started about 1885. Does anyone have an earlier reference to Eli or a date when the Kansas City Flyer received that name?

In a biography of Charles Elliott Perkins (who was President of the CB&Q 1876-1901), it stated that the family home when he was growing up was named “The Owl’s Nest”. Coincidence?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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