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Dave,
This looks to be the Silver Streak Zephyr's original consist with
one exception. The RPO-Storage Mail car assigned to the Silver
Streak for it's inaugural service (1600 Silver Sheen) looks to be
substituted with another 52 seat Chair car for this demonstration
run.
Bill Hirt
On 5/12/2019 1:35 PM, Dave Lotz wrote:
Thanks for everyone’s responses to my
question! Based upon the answers and another photo of the
same train in Dubuque on March 17, 1940, it has been decided
that this is the 9909 and Silver Streak Zephyr headed
to Dubuque from Chicago that same day. The Waterman-Shabbona
location seems to be the consensus, so that’s what we’ll go
with in the caption. Leo, the file name indicated “9900 first
trip Chicago to D”…hence my guess that the D stood for Denver,
but now see that the D is for Dubuque! This image will be in
the forthcoming Burlington Bulletin on the E5s.
Dave
There were
searchlight interlocking signals at this location in
1940. The automatic block signals were still 2 blade
lower quad semaphores until 1942, at which time CTC was
installed between Aurora and Steward Jct., and the
semaphores were replaced with 3-color light signals. The
searchlight interlocking signals remained. My opinion is
that this location is between Waterman and Shabbona prior
to 1942.
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