Do you have your copy of "Quotations from Chairman Menk" right next to "Quotations from Chairman Mao" on your bookshelf? railroad article...probably at and sanctum"..Murphy, "you
Norm, Light brown cover, his picture on the back, (standing on the South walkway of the hump tower at Northtown). Actually called "A Railroad Man Looks At America". Subtitled: "Excerpts from the Spee
Pete, The train service employees at Lincoln and Sioux City sure know the difference. At Fremont they cross "The Big Road". Never heard anyone dispute that. wasn't here
Norm, He certainly did the coal business no long term good. First really long haul contract was to San Antonio and they got gouged so bad they went to court. Got a big settlement from BN & SP. Now th
A 6-December-42 timetable shows #21 at St Paul at 3:15 p.m. Some interesting scheduling. At East Dubuque it is 40 mph from the depot across the IC diamond and over the East end of the CB&Q center sid
Don't think that the CB&Q was interested in renumbering anything. They sent the TR2's back for new cabs but kept the original "A" & "B" numbering. Just a thought. Russ sets. lacked
Pete, Since they had no portable radios the Engineer could not tell the Conductor and Flagman which side. On a conventional train they could just open both sides of a vestibule and look ahead. The Ze
Don, Glen is right on target. In the days when these were towers the Operator could wave a flag at a train and bring them up, at least to the tower. It was rather disconcerting to leave Congress Park
The SCL had a passenger train derailment in Florida where both the Engineer and Fireman were in the nose of the unit trying to get the mars light to work. The switch into a junk yard was lined wrong
If the air hose swings upwards and the glad hand catches on something things act much different. A bent air hose will pinch shut. The other stuff only concerns the units behind, not the leader. One
Among the beautiful photos in Mike Spoor's Vol. 4 is a shot of LC, (or you might call it "LC70"), getting ready to leave Galesburg. On pages 20 & 21 one of the new, Havelock built, stockcars is on th
Tom, were painted Chinese Red when built. BTW, those nifty looking grain doors turned out to be nothing but trouble and by the mid 70's were all welded shut. Why? For one, there was very little deman
Don, To be more precise: CB&Q > Lunar/Red = Stop & Proceed at Restricted speed. CB&Q > Flashing Red = Not used. Consolidated Code of 1980: BN > Lunar/Red = Proceed at Restricted Speed BN > Flashing R
The 9912A was the last E5 in service. About a week or two in suburban service during Dec of 64. I did not see it run after that. It had three red stripes on each side of the lower headlight and a bun
Paul, The schedules were arranged that way so that the trains COULD be combined. Freight trains, unlike passenger trains, only run when there is traffic to move. I will acknowledge that at one time,
If the below is meant as a question the photo is from 1941. Those are the exhaust stacks, as built. In 1941 I would doubt that any units had radios. Some of the SW's never did get radios. Clean? Sinc
Greg, Bulk mail continued to move in trailers or the NYC's Flexivan containers. It still does so today. The shift was already taking place when the passenger train contracts were cancelled. There was
Karl, As I said, the appearance was of a higher speed impact than would be possible if only gravity was involved. I may have not known anything else but I did know that yard. How about if the "Snuffi