The question has been asked, "what was the real tie between the Rock and the Burlington." It could have been John D. Farrington, who came off Burlington's Fort Worth & Denver as general manager to be
Take a look at Burlington Bulletin No. 22, page 11, for pictures of April 3, 1947, wreck at Downers Grove, Ill. Jim Neubauer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
My guess is that it was the Omaha Club, used as the tail car on several fan trips, and uninhabitable on some of those hot summer days when the ice ran out. JN [Non-text portions of this message have
Right on!, Ed. Well said. Jim Neubauer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ To unsubscri
Yes, the telegraph installation in the North Freedom , Wis.depot has a Prince Albert tobacco can for a sounder. It works, and there's a retired telegraphers club that meets there occasionally. The Mi
Duncan: It appears to be what was called a "power car" used in suburban service for the suburban car lighting and heating. They also appeared on fan trips at the end whenever the double deck suburban
Denny: How railroads got their nickname is a matter of natural speech emphasis. Say aloud Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, or say Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and see where the emphasis fall
The Pioneer Zephyr didn't run in the daytime with its headlight on in the 1930's. The law requiring daytime running with headlight on didn't become effective until 1947 or so. [Non-text portions of t
I used to commute on the North Coast Limited, Burlington train number 25, Saturdays for a weekend in the country at Savanna. The North Coast Limited left Chicago at 12:25 p.m., a few minutes past noo
Oops! Sometimes the keyboard takes on a life of its own. I would return to Chicago on No. 24, the Afternoon Zephyr, and not No. 25. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups
Jonathan: I rode all the services along that route, in all the seasons. Yes, a dome ride at night was special. One I recall was seeing moonlight reflect off the ice floes on the Mississippi. The Uppe
Trains 42 and 43 served Billings in 1950, but not from Omaha. They ran from/to Kansas City and made connections at Lincoln for Omaha. Train 43 left K.C. at 6:30 p.m., and arrived Billings at 8:45 the
Tom, the CB&Q ran a mail-baggage-express with rider coach train called the Coloradoan. This train was combined with the Nebraska Zephyr as far as Lincoln, and all the MBE traffic on the head end cont
Mid-Continent Railway Museum at North Freedom, Wis., was donated a CB&Q waycar from the estate of a deceased member. I assisted in stabilizing the car with new roofing over this past weekend, but the
That fantrip with Big Alice, 4-6-4 No. 4000, was July 1, 1956, from Chicago to Barstow (sic) to Galesburg to Chicago, and was sponsored by The Railroad Club of Chicago, Inc. The Q lined up locomotive
List and Dave: I believe the photo you are referring to is the one on the cover dust jacket of the book by Bob Johnston and Joe Welsh, with Mike Schafer, called The Art of the Streamliner. The wrap-a
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Used bricks, called Chicago Common, were and maybe still are a commodity that is regularly shipped from Chicago to Texas by rail. There was a tariff for shipping Chicago Common. When I worked at the
In the video Prairie Rails by Herron Rail Video, there is one scene of a dinky passing with one of the red commuter cars in the consist. JN [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Ya
Yes, NP dome-coaches were on IC's City of Miami during the winter season. I rode the City Chicago to Jacksonville around February 1970. Unfortunately, southern Illinois is not noted for scenery, and