"Passenger show Zephyrs where they apartment.. The boilers for the DZ were located in the front end of the B-unit. If you have Dorin's book, see page 46 and note the vaned exhaust vents in that locat
zephyr@k... you Silver Correct - except that the DZ auxiliary cars had four generators (mounted transversely (crosswise). The TCZ/NZ aux cars only had three each. Note the radiator grills in the pier
- but I have also seen reference to Challenger proposing a rerun of the Mark Twain Zephyr 9903, but "as-built" - I want more info (price, delivery, blahblahblah) - who has Challenger's e-mail address
Not exactly "renumbered" - CB&Q was sold to Wyoming Railroad in 1930 to become their 105. That followed the sale of H-2 1162 to become WRR 103. A brief account of WRR is given in "The Burlington in T
to train 70 Oh, Please! That's genuine, full-fledged 36" gauge . . . and most of the rail is 90 pound. When we're running a 27 ton 1891 Baldwin mogul around a 30 degree curve at 20 mph in order to ma
gauge to True - most of the *heavy* rail on 3' gauge is 75# at most. The MCRR does operate a Henschel (narrowed from German dockside meter-gauge), in addition to the 1891 Baldwin mogul and ex West Si
tractors hit old Add several buildings of antique displays and sales, two separate "villages" representing life in 1850 and 1900, a trolley line with 5 or 6 different cars, several old diesel and ste
the It is a printing process which involved a large, rolled metal plate with photos etched into it in fine halftone. An early use was for newspaper Sunday Supplements (the ancestors of Parade and USA
The work was done by "Shop Services, Inc.", a company established by Stan Mathews to take advantage of the plant necessary to maintain the Midwest Central's own engines. Besides rebuilding a number o
I spoke with Challenger on the phone the other day. They definitely hope to run the MTZs again, but this is conbditional both on the amount of consumer interest and their suppliers' scheduling. At pr
I'm not as "up" on the Midwest Electric Railway as I am on the MWC, but MER has wood combine #9 from the Southern Iowa Electric Railway (built by SIRR 1915), a high-speed interurban from the Chicago,
truck shays to, I don't care much fr them but seen the one the Club guys ran around there layout in Ottumwa at the show, Bachmann, she was nice. see there's that would be cool. This one's a lot bigge
would Either a freight or express XM-32 can be represented by the Red Caboose 10'6" AAR car (with ladder modifications and the addition of Passenger steam/signal piping). Most of the express versions
A color photo of the right side of CB&Q 205099 is on p. 126 of Mike Spoor's Color Guide to CB&Q Equipment; a b&w pic of the left side is on p. 98 of Corbin & Hardy's "Burlington in Transition". Both
new For BR modelers, there would be two versions of deskirting. The first 3 CB&Q cars and the 1940 TZ cars would have stepped skirt openings to accomodate the 3-K trucks with their in-rigged brake cy
Terry - The C&S and FW&D were interlocked to the Q by boards of directors, and were regarded as part of the "Burlington Route" (and thus of the Hill Lines), but for legal reasons, they were separate
As I understand it, at the time the Fort Worth-Denver line was built, Texas had a law requiring any railroad operating in the state to have corporate offices within Texas. This was also the reason wh