This is more likely the time I was thinking of. Moved to St Louis in 1959 so it would have to have been after that. Just guessed the wrong flood year! Jerry C ________________________________________
floodwaters of the yards .... Jim Boyd has related this story in Railfan magazine more than once since he was chasing flood trains and came to the intersection at Mount Carroll and agonized over whe
This wasn't really regular service. This was using an excursion engine for an emergency. The truly last "non-excursion", "non-emergency" regular revenue steam-powered service was the day switch engin
In the video 'Last Steamers of the Colorado & Southern' there is a clip showing C&S Mikado #807 (former Q) bringing the Fort Collins local south toward Denver's Rice Yard. It's a gray, snowy day, a m
For the record, the last steam powered freight through Burlington, Iowa was at night on September 12, 1956 with 2-10-4 6325 heading up and eastbound, and the last revenue passenger steam run was Chri
The 807 run would have more likely been December 1958, not '59. All C&S steamers , except the 641 and excursion engine 638, were laid up by December 1959. Incidently, my last cab ride on the 807 was
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