Author: "fuchst900 via groups.io" <fuchst900=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:20:54 -0800
This is in regard to pictures on pages 22 and 23 of Bulletin 47 showing CS and FWD SD7 in passenger service with the upper (White) light on the signal light lit. My question is how these were handled
I can't swear to Q practice, but when I had an SD9 with the oscillating lights on the BN, I'd let them run, just to pretend I was running a passenger train. Once, the girl clerk who 'verified' our Lo
Steve, I dont know if the C&S / FW&D used the same operating rules as the Q, but in normal service, the white Mars light was on all the time during night operations. The Mars lights generally traced
This is just anecdotal and others may have more information. There were times in the 60's when I was waiting at the Western Springs station for a dinkie to take me to downtown Chicago, I'd see a Zeph
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Scott, I grew up and lived in Downers Grove until I left for college. I agree that most passenger trains in the Chicago area were powered with E units, but there were a few exceptions. Attached is a
Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 09:23:03 -0600
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Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:24:26 +0000 (UTC)
As Bill states, there were two GP-7's equipped with cab signals for suburban service. In his CB&Q in color, Volume 1, on page 30, Mike Spoor show 244 on the lead of Train #2, the all-stops Galesburg-
Just for fun, I looked in my copy of the 1951 Burlington Lines Rule Book, a souvenir of my time at the CRRM in the '60's. As Bill questioned, the book was used by the Q/C&S/FW&D and the Wichita Valle
Not all trains were Zephyrs lead by Silver E units. Enclosed is a mail extra lead by SD9s. Some of Mike Spoors' books have shots of the Galesburg local lead by GP7s in both red and black schemes. Al
Jim, what years did the mixed Es and Fs run together? My guess would be in the late 1950s and the 1960 into the BN merger. Nelson Moyer From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of James S
Dave, The photo was taken on August 20, 1961. It was a grab shot that I took while I was waiting to photograph 4960 returning from an Illini RR Club trip to Rockford. It is the only photo of the trai
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You're correct, Ed. The Consolidated Code, Rule 17 (C) requires engines equipped with an oscillating white headlight "to be displayed approaching and passing over public crossings and through cities
The Consolidated Code shows under Rule 17(C) On engines so equipped, oscillating white headlight must be displayed approaching and passing over public crossings and though cities and towns by night o
Mars Lights are the greatest safety items on a train. Forget them damn ditch lights. I see them and I think it's a car.I was driving a car load of friends around the Aurora Farm country in the early
I have only seen evidence of freight Geeps running, usually as trailing units. The time frame was the 1960s when other mail or express runs had been terminated and LCL and occasionally Packing Hous
Bill, Is that Washington Street? -- David Streeter Naperville, IL On 12/18/2020 9:04 AM, William Barber wrote: Scott, I grew up and lived in Downers Grove until I left for college. I agree that most
All- My grandmother took me on a Burlington tour trip to Colorado the summer after I graduated from eighth grade (1959). One of my fond memories from that trip was sitting in the dome of the Denver
We lived east of St Joe and I remember you could see the train coming almost before you could hear it with the Mars light dancing in the sky. - Dallas Giddens mudhop@gmail.com _._,_._,_ Groups.io Lin