<< On Friday I got home Early from East Chicago,In (meeting at the mfg plant) and took my girls to piano lessons in Plano.While idling away the time visiting w/the instructors husband he talked about
<< What is freight?? Rich "passenger boy" Gortowski >> Now Rich.... you have to have a couple of freight trains....... oh that's right they are called Mail Trains okay! Loren
"Silver Isle" Budd 1952 10-6 Sleeper Burlington Number 432 Others in the same order 431 Silver Dale 433 Silver Meadow 434 Silver Plain 435 Silver Prairie 436 Silver Slope According to Warner's Car Na
<< The chance of a Silver Charger is plastic is about as good as Clinton's zipper staying closed. A plastic LL E7 or E8 makes a suitable substitute for a post war train. >> This is true Ed! I am look
<< Hello Fellow Listers, I recently acquired a set of Oriental King and Queen locomotives. It appears that I will need to do some re-motoring work. Although the pair run well, I would like to add fly
<< This isn't Q, but I imagine the same thing was true in various stations. The Santa Fe station in Oklahoma City was on elevated trackage. There was a hole in the platform, and the mail car was spot
List: I am having a problem finding information on the Burlington Budd Sleepers built in 1952. These cars were part of a Burlington order for additional CZ 10-6's, Silver Crag and Silver Chasm. What
<< Loren, A year or so ago there were ads in TRAINS magazine for a book called "Passenger Car Library: The Budd Comnpany: Vol. 1 CB&Q". I think that it was from RPC Publications in the St. Louis area
Rich and List Monday night the Aurora City Council at their meeting voted to put the Aurora Depot on the Historical Register. Plans are to build a sports complex on the site with the depot being torn
I have asked John for his email address more than once I don't have it and I have the pictures of the train..... so if someone would care to forward me his email I will send the pics of the train to
<< Hi All; According to EMD styling & painting print #8421776, all the walkways are green with the area where the stripe crosses being white, just as Ed described. Ya know guys...... even though none
<< I know that during the 50's the Silver Pendulum was used with G-E #9767 in Missouri. Does anyone know where it was used before this? I am particularly interesteds in the early 40's. Ken Martin I h
<< Thanks for the info but one small correction is warranted. That absolutely wasn't the Conductor throwing off those newspaper bundles. The Con would not humble himself to perform baggagemen/brakema
<< The real gallery cars are on the BNSF. They are still in their original numbers from 50 years ago (starting with 700). There are many gallery car "clones" on metra that are not Budd cars. Rich >>
Rich! It is fun to see what has become of a meeting between two Presidents the first one being Jim Milller of the BRHS and myself Loren Johnson President of the LIttle Q Model Railroad Club. If memor
In the Morning Sun ACL Equipment book there is a shot of an ACL Combine # 666 heading westbound on the Burlington in Setember of 1967. The photo was shot as the Burlington Passenger Train left Union