Hello, Larry. I could not believe this message when I did my mail run. I am from Albia, so I can maybe shed a little light. First of all, I have a question. My grandmother raised me, and I remember b
Hello, Steve. Back in 1987, I think it was, "Trains" magazine devoted an entire issue to Iowa railroading. One of the features was a chart showing railroad abandonments in Iowa up to that time. The c
Hello, Steve. I am from Albia, so I will address your message. Please give some thought to posting your article when you are finished with it. I would especially like to read your account of the mixe
Hello, everyone. Since we are talking about railroad activity in and around Albia, Iowa, by railroads other than the Q: I am from Albia, born and raised, and these discussions have been extremely int
Hello, Lenny. I know. I remember the depot. It also served as the Wabash depot. The Wabash did run a mail train to Des Moines with a passenger car on the rear, but it didn't stop at the Q depot, eve
Hello, Steven. OK. then it must have joined with the Wabash just south of the depot there in Alnia. It was always around 10 p. m. when I would see it, and the train was invariably dark -- no lights
Hello, Lenny. OK. I mentioned in a note to Steven (I think) that I recalled a Wabash train with a lone coach on the end. MAYBE you and I are talking about the same train. This was in the lata 50s an
Hello, Bryan. Yes indeed! There is a book titled "Classic American Railroad Terminals", written and/or edited by Kevin J. Holland. It is published by MBI Publishing Companyt and is copyright 2001, so
Hello again, Bryan. You are indeed welcome. What do you mean, "only"? You are a man among men. Wonderful, especially since the departed ones were taken out in general before you were born. The one cl
Hello, Dennis. My pleasure indeed. Amazon.com for $24.47, plus shipping of $3.99. Not bad! The book covers the major stations in the US, and it appears to be exhaustive. I began the Chicago section t
Hello, everyone. On the subject of streamliner videos: Thirty years ago, I ordered an 8-mm film titled "Some Early Streamliners" from Blackhawk Films in Davenport, Iowa. The title says it all. The fi
Hello, everyone. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned some problems I was having with Yahoo e-mail. That has gotten fixed. However, a couple of guys wrote to me at my Earthlink address, wanting to purs
Hello, Marshall. That's OK -- I'm good at that sort of thing. In all of the times I have ridden behind Q E's and have seen pictures of them, I have thought that those "grilles" near the mars light we
Hell, John. OK. Then I presume that there was nothing in the nose except bracing or some other reinforcement to make the nose strong enough to survive collisions. Thanks, John, for you info. You and
Hello, Marshall. Sorry for the slow response, but I had to put work ahead of one of my hobbies. 8-) Thanks, Marshall. I do keep trying! Back in July, 1973, I read a story in TRAINS titled something l
Hello, Pete, and everyone else. All the talk about firemen being in the engine room has raised one big question in my mind -- WHY? I have always thought that the main role of the fireman was to verif
Hello, Warren. I will appreciate anything that anyone else wants to add to this, but you have told me far more than I ever knew before. Thanks!! Bill _________________________________________________
Hello, Pete. Thank you for your reply. You know, I think I remember hearing about this incident on the news. Back in those simpler times, an event like this would make the newspapers and radio newsc
Hello, Warren. I wanted to reply, but deleted the message first. Luckily, I had saved it to a text file. answering eventually getting dispatcher If memory serves me right, the very same thing happene
Hello, everyone. Because of Yahoo, I will be stepping out of the list for a while. Yahoo has messed up my e-mail so badly that I lost some important work-related e-mails, which luckily were also sent