Charlie, YOU are so right. Today 36 1/2 years after the Burlington merged into BN we have an incredable amount of books and models out there on the market. It seems to grow every year. Of course many
The one thing that's always put the BRHS Burlington Bulletin above many other historical societies publications is this Hol Wagner. BRHS has always given Hol the freedom to put together a great publi
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John and list.... For starters the Waycar isn't a Burlington Waycar, it's GN..... the city got it in trade from Union for the 10 wheeler #637. The City of Aurora Street Dept used a brass model of min
When the Burlington ran the Denver Zephyr in sections, coach and Pullman. Did they use the one "extra" CZ observation on the Pullman Section? Loren Johnson [Non-text portions of this message have bee
Yes that would have been most useful. By having all the name boards removable I think they would have looked much better. Also for guys that would like to model the RGZ the cars would by prototype. A
Charlie, Also the dinning cars are really close again the small name boards and with the diners built after the CZ's removal of the radio antenna. Broadway as I've said before out did themselves with
Shoreham Sops, now Railway Classics ran models of Silver Tower and Silver Terrace. You might try to look on the brass lists for one of these cars. I have Silver Tower, it's a very fine model. I can t
This question came up this past weekend at a show The Little Q Model Railroad Club did out at Blackberry Farm in Aurora IL. Is there a reason why the domes are offset and not centered in the car? Is
I never thought of the under floor equipment, thus more space would be available with the dome being off set.More space in one area for ac units, water tanks, and other equipment. As far as the roof
If there was any interchange of frieght at Aurora, it would have been done at the C&NW Freight station located if memory serves me on the south side of New York Street. The Frieght Station was locate
Greg, Yes I believe that's the number. Those containers were known as Flexi Vans. Which I believe were a NYC system of containers on flat cars. Also the Burlington did have the flat cars for the Flex
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To Randy and fellow listers I wish to extend an apology to Randy regarding my off the wall comment on the Waycar Book. I hope this has not caused anyone grief as I just made a glib comment. Loren Joh
I remember seeing that consist in John Strauss's book. Could the "Burlington" section have been a special move? I guess my question stems from Silver Tower being in the consist since the Empire Build
Twin City Zephyrs Blackhawk Empire Builder Western Star North Coast Limited Mainstreeter The Twin Zephyrs had 2 sets of equipment, each set made a round trip daily between Chicago and Twin Cities. Li
None of the Burlington, C&S, FW&D F's were painted in the black and gray scheme. The only F's that weren't in the light gray with red stripes were the F3's possibly where the "black" came from as the
Silver Rapids carried the Burlington and CZ equipment's full skirting into Penn Central. I have a photo of the car in PC and the skirting is still in place. Silver Rapids went into Amtrak.If the skir
I remember reading that's why they came up with the name Silver Rapids, Silver for the Burlington/CZ and Rapids for the Pennsy's 10-6's. And I forgot to mention that both versions of Silver Rapids is