Author: "Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:00:16 -0700
For those of us that don't model the commuter lines but are eager to have an excuse to order a Rapido Gallery car: 1. I know the Budd Gallery Cars were used on many of the steam fan trips. So that is
Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:19:38 -0500
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The first time I went to Railroad Days, the yard tour train was in gondolas. My father dropped his camera's lens cap somewhere in the yard. This was early 1980s, possibly the year the cabless GEs wer
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Author: "Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:33:00 -0700
Leo, Would that have been White Pines Ranch in Oregon, IL? (http://www.whitepinesranch.com/) If so, did the Boy Scout specials just run to Oregon and then back, push-pull with a cab car? I'd be reall
Galesburg RR Days started in the mid-late 70's . I was told by our guide during one of the yard tours, that RR Days started after the 1972 fatal BN head- on wreck near Maquon,IL that killed 4 crew me
I believe this was the 44th year of Galesburg Railroad Days. Lenny Ohrnell -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64460): https://gr
I have seen photos of BiLevels in the CBQ Minneapolis coach yard. -Hudson _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#64461) | Reply To Group | Reply T
James, I was hostling at 14th street in 1977 and they had an open house at Cicero yard. I dont remember them running a tour train but they did have an E9 commuter locomotive on display on a track whi
Author: "Dennis C. Henry" <dennis@dennischenry.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:57:59 -0500
Tom, A single Budd gallery car was carried eastbound on the Twin Zephyr No. 22 on Saturday July 29, 1966. It was the second to last car, behind the regular consist as seen departing from St. Paul Uni
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:35:57 -0500
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Author: "Bryan Howell via groups.io" <tubaman21=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:53:57 -0700
Greg Smith in the Twin Cities posted these two photos of the Morning Zephyr arriving at Minneapolis during the holiday season with a string of bilevels and a power car. I don't have a date handy. Bry
Author: "Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:44:51 -0700
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 08:08:46 -0500
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My wife and I rode one of the yard tour trains in Galesburg. It was fun and it was free. Ken Vandevoort _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#644
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 16:03:20 +0000 (UTC)
October 6, 2022 Leo - I graduated from Downers Grove High School in 1964. For our class trip that year, we booked a special weekend passenger train comprised of gallery cars, a power car and a baggag
I'm late adding to this, but when I was a student at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa I rode the Q to and from home in Downers Grove. The college kids normally rode in heavy weight coaches tacked o