The East End Wayfreight. On duty Eola RH 7:10 AM M-F (weekends & holidays off) turn @ Congress Park; back to Eola by 10:30 AM; 6 days pay in 5! Can remember this job back in the1950's, when Fred Hunt
GO - Only the ones equipped with ATS, which in GE parlance means Attempting To S tart. #4's problem yesterday had to do with BNsf's poorly maintained ACS system screwing-up the cut-in ATS system that
<< we were going in the whole for one train. >> Since you're on a spelling kick, the correct spelling should be "hole"; you've been looking at too many whistle posts! wI won't wsay wanything wabout w
<< My father, Samuel Sadler, ..........died suddenly at the age of 21 in 1932 when I was 9 years old. >> Is this a "typo" or was Wilma's father only 12 when she was born? Age 27 sounds better. Bob
<< I have a photo of him with many other men on a huge steam engine. >> Would be interesting to know the number of that locomotive in the photo (a T class articulated??). Bob
<< a side issue to the question >> Hardly, Dave; when checking employment records, Date of Birth means a heck of a lot! Just talk to the Social Security Administration or RR Retirement Board, let alo
Does anyone on the list know the reason for the MLW S-4? switch engine sitting on the "back track" at Galva, IL since Thursday 9/21? It's lettered "CANAC" but didn't catch the number. Was wondering i
<< the print shows a Mars light on the rear of the unit. I don't remember seeing one on the completed units. Was there one on the rear? >> Print is wrong for the "Q" SD-45's; there was no rear Mars l
Try Seiko. They used to have one back in the mid-1980's; ask to see a catalog. When I was running the old GM&O route Chicago-St. Louis, in 1987, my fireman had one. Don't know if they are still avail
<< one exception as was the application of the Dash 2 trucks. F45's, generally, had very good riding qualities, SDP40 F's did not. Even though the locomotives are long gone it would be interesting to
Brian - As I recall, Galena Jct. was on the LaCrosse Division in the 1960's. I remember riding a steam (4960?) trip to Galena over the Q branch (not IC) in 1960. Steam was replaced at Savanna with a
<< I understand there is a group trying to restore 3007 to operating condition - where is that engine located, and how is the group doing? >> Illinois Railway Museum Union (McHenry Co.), IL www.irm.o
<< new building going in on the site of the former Downers Rdhse leads is going to be? Leo >> I don't know what the new building is, but it's not located on the DG roundhouse lead (singular). The RH