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1. [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:09:37 -0400 (EDT)
June 8, 2014 Aurora had an unexpected visitor when the NP sent Yellowstone Class Z-5 No. 5008 to participate in the Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948. Here is a link to the Chicago Railroad Fair: http://
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00028.html (12,513 bytes)

2. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:24:25 -0600
Louis and Group: I've been slow to respond to this posting because I had a bit of scanning and fact checking to do first. I've always been a big fan of articulated locomotives, likely because I grew
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00038.html (15,907 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:31:38 -0400 (EDT)
Hol I note that you mentioned that this engine arrived at Denver June 1949...IIRC the RR fair ran summers 48-49...my Grandfather took me to the fair summer 48...If your date and mine are correct this
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00039.html (17,654 bytes)

4. FW: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:41:07 -0600
The two photos together exceed Yahoo's 10 MB limit, so I'll send them one at a time. Hol From: holpennywagner@msn.com To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora Date: Tue
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00040.html (16,380 bytes)

5. FW: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:41:48 -0600
OK, here's the rest: By late 1942 the D&RGW was being overwhelmed by heavy wartime traffic, much of it flowing over the Moffat Road and Dotsero Cutoff, but a substantial amount also taking the Royal
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00041.html (16,837 bytes)

6. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:43:22 -0600
Pete: Yes, the WP engine was only displayed during the summer of 1949, when the Q, Rio Grande and WP had a big exhibit in conjunction with the new California Zephyr. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From:
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00042.html (17,009 bytes)

7. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:48:39 -0600
Looking at these two photos made me wonder if the DM&IR engines were ever double-headed on the DM&IR. I don't think they were, but I'm certainly no Missabe expert, and this is probably the wrong foru
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00043.html (17,035 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:11:31 -0400 (EDT)
Switch broom and outhouse are a nice added benefit to these photos. Pete The two photos together exceed Yahoo's 10 MB limit, so I'll send them one at a time. Hol From: holpennywagner@msn.com To: cbq@
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00045.html (18,702 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:16:37 -0400 (EDT)
to be technically correct I should have used the preferred railroad description as "dry closet" instead of outhouse. Pee Switch broom and outhouse are a nice added benefit to these photos. Pete --Ori
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00046.html (19,904 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Philip Weibler pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:24:39 -0700 (PDT)
Hello Pete, Hol, and All - Trains magazine had a letter and a photo of WP 402 in the RPO section - letters to the editor back in 1948 or '49.  The date of the magazine would confirm the date of 402's
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00047.html (14,228 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Ewinger bkewinger@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
Are any record of moving these engines across the Q when there were brand new on delivery from the factory? I am not taking just about the one mention here but all of the big western units-- big boy-
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00048.html (14,883 bytes)

12. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "'Kenneth Middleton' krmiddle@charter.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:17:04 -0400
On page 368 of the Great Northern steam locomotive book there is a photo of two DM&IR engines that are under steam and coupled together, but appear to be running light with only a caboose. The photo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00049.html (17,639 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
June 10, 2014 Bill, Hol and Group - I think all of this would make the basis for an excellent article in a future issue of the Burlington Bulletin entitled "Exotic Steam Visitors To The Q" or somethi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00050.html (14,615 bytes)

14. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "'Kenneth Middleton' krmiddle@charter.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:26:28 -0400
Great Northern New Equipment Registers (now part of the collection of Historical Car Records at the Minnesota Historical Society) indicate that nearly all, if not all, of GN's engines that were not h
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00051.html (15,377 bytes)

15. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
June 10, 2014 Ken, Hol and Group - Rather than coming west from Chicago, could've the two Missabe Yellowstones (or others) been delivered to the Q via the Billings, MT, gateway and routed south to De
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00053.html (20,083 bytes)

16. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "'Douglas Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:18:12 -0500
Louis the CGW did not serve St Louis. But I may know the routing. The C&O sold several 2-8-8-2 articulated steam engines to the UP during WWII. They traveled west under steam, getting on the M&StL at
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00054.html (12,655 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:29:29 -0400 (EDT)
June 10, 2014 Doug - As I near my seventh decade, memories get a little fuzzy (like an O-1-A with worn valves desperately trying to stay one trip ahead of that brand new EMD GP-7 hot on her cindery t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00055.html (12,037 bytes)

18. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:57:56 -0500
The DM&IR engines were moving from a lease assignment, not for exhibition. They were leased out to the D&RGW or WP on a regular basis during the winter off-ore season (dont recall details but I think
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00058.html (12,488 bytes)

19. RE: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:28:26 -0600
Louis: I know the photo you mean, and I've got it somewhere in the Corbin collection, but a quick search just now failed to turn it up. Bernie photographed it as it passed through -- dead as I recall
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00059.html (15,471 bytes)

20. Re: [CBQ] Unexpected Visitor To Aurora (score: 1)
Author: "'Kenneth Middleton' krmiddle@charter.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:39:56 -0400
The DM&IR engines at Devils Lake were Nos. 222 and 223. It is my understanding that they were actually used on the GN (in the Williston and Minot area) during the winter of 1943. Best regards, Ken Mi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2014-06/msg00060.html (12,598 bytes)


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