Since we're on the subject of consists, I'm going to go ahead and throw in my question about MTZ and Z-R consists. I know we've covered some of this before, but there has been a bit of confusion, I'v
kohl: See Chapter 12, "Rocketing Down the River, The Zephyr Rocket" in Greg Stout's book, Route of the Rockets, Rock Island in the Streamlined Era, for complete information on the Zephyr Rocket, incl
which by the 1960s was a very dilapidated Injun Joe coupled to a heavyweight baggage car & coach. That would be a good trick...I'd love to see how the articulated 9903 could couple up (other than in
Errr...good question, you're probably right. Injun Joe is listed as the engine that pulled the train during that time period, but I have a photo in a Spoor book (#4, I believe) that has one of the 99
In Spoor's book 3 P7 he says the MTZ was pulled off trains 43 & 44 in Feb 1953 and was replaced with E-7's. He has a pic of an E-7 pulling a Havelock Baggage, hwt Bagg-mail, hwt coach. On P.26 he has
There were 5 Shovel Nose engines that could have pulled that consist, Silver King (9906), Silver Knight (9907), Zephyrus (9905), Pagasus (9904), and Silver Charger (9908). Although it was hard on pas
Lots of evidence for Silver Charger on the head of K-line secondary passenger trains. Check this year's BRHS calendar. Duncan Cameron Silver Silver Burlington steam Treasure -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor