Steve, You're absolutely right. Hopefully this summer (I'm not even sure when the show is) I can make it over to Mt. Pleasant for the show. I have very fond memories of the Dick Herm Steam Show (loca
I believe the Budd cars (at least the coach) is coming with full skirts. Drawings of the coach are in April Model Railroader and they refer to the new Walthers car. One might hope that there could be
I recently learned that Life-Like will be doing a brand new model of the GP-7 Phase I in the Proto 2000 series. First batch will have Burlington Route engines in the low #200 series. I believe these
Could some of you older "Q" fans climb into your "wayback machines" for me and describe the area that Hinsdale Hospital occupies by Highlands Station back in the post-war ear (40's / 50's). The house
Hi Scott, You bring up some very good questions about why anyone in the world would want a Challenger Imports model. My opinion is that Challenger Imports, along with W&R Imports (very road specific
I forgot to point out that Challenger's builder in South Korea is Samhongsa. They're the same builder that Oriental Limited used for their models of the O5s. The level of detail on a current premium
I'd like to start a campaign to bring one of the Wyoming O5s back to Illinois! I don't know how big the park is in Altona or Wataga but it'd sure be neat to have a #5600 sitting there along the main
I want to caution users of the Train Dispatcher software game to take a very close look at the new CB&Q track territory before shelling out the $5 to buy it. In my opinion it does an extremely poor j
I just want to take a minute and collectively thank every person on the list who helped me with the information on Highlands Station and helping to answer all the other questions this Santa Fe conver
Right now there is a Burlington Route "converted R2" tender on eBay for sale from Oriental Limited. Can anyone tell me what in the world this was used for? Man I wish I was able to buy brass back in
Absolutely, the scene of the Pioneer Zephyr zipping through the Galesburg station was fantastic (at least I think it was Galesburg since I exclaimed Galesburg!! when they showed it). The shot going d
The Blue Goose was the only one of its kind on the Santa Fe. I haven't ever read or learned why it was ever ordered but know that there was also to be a streamlined 4-8-4 Blue Goose. That was to be #
BN had 3 SD-60s from EMD in the tiger stripe scheme in the #8300 series. These were only leased from EMD and were returned after the lease was due. At least one went into the EMD lease fleet. BN also
I've felt for a long time that a high quality plastic Pioneer Zephyr would be a viable project for a manufacture. Possibly the only "oddball" project other than a UP turbine that might fly. I thought
While on vacation last month I spent the afternoon in Williams, Arizona and was lucky enough that the GCRY used the #4960 for the daily train to the canyon. Of course they've prettied her up quite a
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers have a new album out and the first single is a neat little love song called "the Zephyr Song". Has absolutely nothing to do with Burlington Zephyrs but I think its neat tha
Kam wrote this today on the IlliniRail list. Anybody seen a "Q" doodlebug running around today? Mike Martin / Peoria Heights, IL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Well that didn't work! Guess we can't forward emails to the list.... Anyway, Kam saw a Burlington doodlebug today on a flatbed trailer being hauled in Keokuk. I guess his eyes pretty much fell out of
Years ago in Denver a turntable was moved up to the Georgetown Loop railroad to be used for their "turntable bridge" over the creek. Supposedly this was the original bridge that somehow made it to De
I think Charlie's post about Nolan Null may be the first post to the list that mentions that Nolan is connected with Life-Like / Proto 2000. I always assumed before that "our" Nolan Null on the list