Re: [CBQ] "Steam To Stainless" Video Documentary

["Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

February 27, 2023

 

Pete - Coming from you, that's HIGH PRAISE indeed!  I trust your comments will encourage others to take a deep dip into Bill Franckey's two hour documentary master piece! - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 2/27/2023 2:32:43 PM Central Standard Time, jpslhedgpeth=aol.com@groups.io writes:

 

 

Louis...I just finished a 2 hour "indulgence" in railroading on this documentary...I love it I love it.  It's the most accurate and realistic piece of it's kind.  

 

The best lpart of it for me is that I can relate my own railroad experience to these guys  I love listening to the old timers talk and I myself had some personal experiences on the railroad tantamount to what is in this "documentary..It is Genuanly realistic...is that redundant.  But it is superb especially since the conversations are all "right from the railroaders themselves..Talking the way the men talk and relating  those real life experiences.

 

Thklanks...I'm gonna get this presenttion set up for one of our local railfan club meetings.

 

Thanks Again for your service

 

Pete Hedgpeth

 

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From: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>

Date: 2/26/23 1:52 PM (GMT-06:00)

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Subject: [CBQ] "Steam To Stainless" Video Documentary

 

February 26, 2023

 

All - William "Bill" Franckey, a retired CB&Q/BN/BNSF locomotive engineer and lifetime railroad historian has just uploaded to YouTube his masterful two hour and sixteen minute video documentary "Steam To Stainless" that records the transition from steam to diesel on the Galesburg Division: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFUnWNC0z8Q

 

Bill comes from a generational railroad family of locomotive engineers dating back over a hundred years. During his career, Bill sat down and interviewed senior or retired Galesburg Division engineers and other mechanical department employees to record their work life memories.

 

This is a very personalized documentary that focuses upon the everyday life of engine crews and the many challenges they faced in getting their steam and diesel powered trains over the Division either west to Ottumwa, IA, or east to Chicago, IL (Cicero and Chicago Union Station).

 

Plus, Bill interviewed retired Galesburg Roundhouse employees including a steam locomotive boiler maker and diesel locomotive electrician who maintained the motive power to get the trains over the Division. There is a wealth of information in these interviews that is seldom heard elsewhere.

 

The Burlington Route Historical Society is in the process of adding Bill's documentary to the video area of their website. Included in the video are a number of interesting historical photos and motion picture segments depicting Galesburg railroad scenes over the past hundred plus years - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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