I am beginning to build the NKP kit for the above car, which I remember well on the AK-SAR-BEN, as seen one morning at the CUS throat in the sixties as the train was being withdrawn to the yard for s
CBQ purchased three baggage cars for the TCZ from Budd that were essentially add-on clones to the ones originally purchased for the DZ. The names were ARGO, OLYMPUS and SILVER TREASURE. At least two
A correction: Please note that the first sentence in my previous post should refer too CZ, not DZ. My apologies. Denny __._,_.___ Posted by: danspachmd@gmail.com Visit Your Group New Members 3 Yahoo!
I do not see my most recent response/post (possibly lost) so please excuse this repeat. The 1973 photo of SILVER TREASURE is extremely helpful. Thank you! I have all the back issues of RMC to 1934, s
Thank you all for your interesting and quite informative replies. As was mentioned, SILVER TREASURE apparently was the only one delivered with a steam generator, which was in use on the SILVER STREAK
Thank you, Bill Shultz and Hol Wagner. This information explains a LOT, and is immensely interesting to boot. That the WP required more heating water between SLC and Portola is not surprising, given
I am activating a Oriental/KMT HO model of one of the first six EMC/Budd 1800HP locomotives for the Denver and TC Zephyrs, and installing a Tsunami 2 decoder in the process. The decaling is fairly st
Thanks to those who responded so graciously and accurately in timely fashion to my EA decaling question. The photo is especially nice, not only answering the direct question, but raising the question
According to Hol Wagner, the engines were 900 hp 201A, the Winton numbering system. Whether or not they were eventually replaced with 567s, I do not know but would not be surprised. I will also demur
Below, I will attach some photos of my successful Hallmark power, drive, and truck conversion of the E5 A unit, and the upgrade of new power install in the dummy B unit. A very similar conversion awa
A pesky issue converting the Hallmark E5s to new power is conserving the matching distinctive plated fluted skirting soldered to the OEM brass flooring, an issue that prevented from doing much earlie
I believe the train traveled on the Q the entire distance, via Savanna and then up the river through LaCrosse on the same route that the Twin Cities Zephyrs ran. I dont know why they would route the
This interesting subject has prompted me to note that I have a spare rescue HO Hallmark dummy E5 B unit that -if there is interest, I would be willing to sell to a Burlington Route person. The stirru
Suede Gray seems to have been a very common paint hue beyond EMD and CBQ. I have an original Milwaukee Road Suede Gray drift card, and I am familiar with remarks by former Milwaukee employees that th
It would be interesting to know just how the Kiwanis cars were forwarded on to Minneapolis, i.e. via CNW or CGW at Omaha, the Rock Island Omaha/Des Moines, or some other more exotic routing, not excl
Some question has been raised about how early industrial corrugated iron siding, i.e. wrinkle tin" came into use. The gargantuan former Sacramento SP Boiler Shop was constructed new with corrugated i
Could the CB&Qs locomotives designed and built to burn lignite also burn regular bituminous soft coal equally well? Wooten firebox Mother Hubbard locomotives: I have often shared the very same questi
I so very much appreciate the informative and interesting replies on this subject. I especially appreciate the fact that one had to only change firebox grates to convert from one fuel to the other. I
Wooten firebox discussion: extremely interesting and informative; fuel size, availability, cost, BTUs, and flammability (or whatever term is applied to actually coaxing a fuel to actually ignite and
After some 40 years, and four (4) (3 plus once twice) interval substantive attempts to get this train to actually run, i.e. get around the layout without growling, rattling, stumbling, slipping, or s