Tom,
That is interesting. Silver Charger was the regular power on
Trains 1 and 44 between St. Louis and West Quincy during 1962 and
early 1963. Trains 1 and 44 were retired by May 1963, so Silver
Charger would have been available to match your memory.
The later part of Silver Charger's career always seem to the last
gasp of a passenger train that was on it's way to be discontinued.
On my layout, I stretch Trains 1 and 44 careers another 6 months.
It provides a good home to the Silver Charger I bought from Mike
Spoor.
Adding a current keeper to the Hallmark model along with a good
DCC decoder dramatically improves it's running performance.
Bill Hirt
On 11/10/2026 8:38 PM, Thomas Johnson
(60/M) via CBQ wrote:
Hey everyone. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
So my 2nd grade elementary school room (2nd floor) looked out
onto the CB&Q mainline (joint with Milwaukee Road) on the
Twin Cities to Chicago line just south of St Paul. It was this
school year that I absolutely fell in love with the Q. This
would have been around the 62-63 timeframe. Anyways, one day the
Q had a work train doing some track work. Lo and behold, the
power for the work train was none other than the Silver Charger.
What a site that was.
Unfortunately, the only thing that I remember from that work
train was that big silver beast! My question to the group is,
would anyone happen to know what cars would have been in that
work train?
I have the HO brass Silver Charger with the General Pershing
Zephyr cars, but I think it would be cool to have said work
train for it to pull also. I converted to N scale 6 years ago,
but refuse to give up my Silver Charger!!!
Thank You,
Tom Johnson
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