| Thank you, Eli. I really like those photos. For one thing it is around 1940 and they are in color. Until the 1950’s as I recall color photos or slides were not very common.
I like the composition of the first one with the flowers in front and the impressive railroad action in the background. The second one is especially nice for me, because I grew up with the dinkies - like the one being passed in Downers at high speed by a streamlined Hudson with a nice thread of smoke trailing it.
Doug
Ed,
I don’t have any movies of either Aeolus pulling a Zephyr, but here are two photos that my dad took around 1939 / 1940. The first was taken near where I-294 crosses under the Burlington, west of Western Springs and the second at Downers Grove with an eastbound train. Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO
<SLQ023.jpeg> Aeolus eastbound near Western Springs passing another Hudson with a passenger train.
<F6295E1B-7E42-4BE6-8ED2-84494918B6B3_1_201_a.jpeg> Eastbound Aeolus with Zephyr at Downers Grove, IL
Does any Film Footage of Aeolus pulling a Zephyr exist? From: GameBreaker64Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:59:37 PDT I find it fascinating that steam with streamlining would occasionally pull the CB&Q's Zephyrs. Is there any extant film footage of a streamlined S-4a pulling a Zephyr?
Thanks!
Eli Santin
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