Yea, I think that's the name. He was about 125 years old when he "herded". Didn't he have some connection with the tavern of the same name on North High Street, other than being a regular customer th
<< allows stopping in ONE HALF the range of vision but NEVER exceeding 20MPH. These aspects replaced the "BOTTOM YELLOW" at the entrance to NON-BONDED sidings. This means that regardless of the frog
If the morons who removed Main #3 between West Eola and Aurora would have left it in place, the "corn-fielder" would have never happened. Two mains from Galesburg plus one main from Savanna equals tw
September, 1964 as I recall. This was the incident which put Johnny Norman in such "good graces" with the management. Do you concur, Karl? "Blinky" was a passenger on the Zephyr along with the rest o
Mike - The consists remind me of the many "Kiddie Specials" that Mr. Murphy promoted for the younger generations about that time frame. Chicago-Aurora Division Superintendent, M. L. Zadnichek's son a
Ron - Marv (he goes by "Louis", now) lives in Fairhope, AL and has that fine collection of "Q" railroadiana that his father gathered over the years. Bob
My very first fireman student trip, 9/15/69, was on train #97 Clyde to Savanna with 5 SD-45's: Q525, Q529, Q521, EL3619, EL3620 for a total of 18,000 horsepower. Not sure on this, but I believe the
In 1987, when I was working as engineer on trains #821/#304, the speed limit thru Lockport was 79 MPH and thru Lemont was 50 MPH. Always a thrill passing thru Lockport at 79 wondering if we would hit
The wording was "until further notice, ........." ; He was the only engineer I ever knew who would run a diesel standing up! (true steam engine engineer) Bob hired-out at Aurora in 1923 at the age of
Marshall - 1. Yes, the cab seats did rotate on the E units (E-7's, 8's, & 9's). As for the E-5's, they were gone before I hired-out but you may want to contact Dave Dote @ IRM for more details. The s
Origin/Destination? The 164 was sitting outside the diesel shop when I came in on #4 today. TJF sure did a beautiful job handling #3 Thur/ 57mins Union Ave - NPV normally 24 min run! RC [Non-text por
Did anyone notice the error in the caption of the June calendar photo with the statement, "...the first six axle locomotives purchased by the "Q" since the light SD-9's numbered 430-459 in 1957."? Si
Is it true there are no known photographs in existence of the only two EMD SW-9's the CB&Q owned, #9269 and #9270? They were assigned Lines West at Alliance, NE. Bob Campbell
As I recall, you had one take a stroll down the "catwalk" of an SD-45 at about 50MPH somewhere on the East End, when it became detached from its chain. Correct me if I'm wrong. My 992B was purchased
Steve & others - With no intent to "flame" anyone but just to clarify some terminology: The green marker (marker denotes rear of train) should have been displayed (on the rear car) in the forward dir
72 volt DC system provided by a Cummins diesel engine in a "power car", that was always on the west end of the train (train lighting only) as opposed to the current 480 volt 3-phase AC locomotive pro