Val, First, IIRC is "if I remember/recall correctly" Second, NP and GN each owned owned 49% making a total of 98% leaving 2% in other hands. For a full detailing see Overton's book "Burlington Route"
Bryan, Had you only asked before coming here. I don't know of anything offhand in the museum proper however there is the Museum Library which is open to the public, they have the R&LHS photo collecti
Bob, Cars 26000-26999 were class XM-30 built in Havelock in 1937. The XM-30 is a six panel boxcar with a 4-5 dreadnaught end. The folio sheet does not indicate anything like a fishbelly underframe. S
Rick, I checked some of my timetables and found the following. 1905 timetable train 41 - Puget Sound Express (westbound) no number- Southeast express (eastbound) 1926 timetable train 41 - Puget Sound
Jan, Bulletin no 24 covers the Burlington Buses. There is always more than meets the eye. The Burlington Transportation Company was incorporated in Feb 1929 to run buses and recover declining passeng
Pete, Like the poetry and appreciate the definitions but you missed one with a Q connection. 'On the Terminal RR in St. Louis (owned by the Wabash then) a foreman named Bill had the job of taking all
The CB&Q bought a Mack/McGuire Cummings railcar in 1922 to run on the branch lines on the Wymore div. but it proved too small and in 1928 was sold to the Rapid City, Black Hills and Western. In 1934
I'll try to answer what I can. Burlington Bulletin 16 on Plattsmouth had an article on milk and cream cars.(out of print) There were two types 34'& 37' converted wood boxcars and a 51' car similar to
It isn't railroad or actually still in use but there is still a covered bridge west of Galesburg in Henderson county. It is in a small park north of Gladstone. For info go to: http://memory.loc.gov/a
Combine #3653 was converted from G-E 9812. Buillt in 9-27 at EMD - St. Louis as CB&Q 560, renumbered 812 in 1-28, renumbered 9812 in 7-30, it was converted to Pass-Bagg 3653 in 6-43. I don't know of
The DOT maintains a site with ICC accident reports from 1911 to 1967 at: http://Specialcollections.tasc.dot.gov/scripts/ws.dll?login&site=dot_railroads Here is the report for the 47 wreck: http://Spe
If you can get a copy of John White's "The American RR Freight Car" pgs 572-580 he writes about LaMothe and the Huntingdon car works. There are also "engravings" of several cars including two gons bu
Bulletin 25 on stock cars has a page on drover cars. The Q did have drover cars that looked like waycars. If there were more than seven or eight drovers they would use an old, close to retirement coa