Stephen, There is a link with the photo that provides the complete caption. It indicates that the Q was receiving a new order of gallery cars including the cab cars when this photo was taken. At that
Author: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 12:56:20 -0500
To this day, RR's arrange delivery of Loco's in certain states to avoid higher taxes. Part of the reason in old photos you see shiny new locos on trains in odd places (whereas today "run thru's" are
The Burlington served a lot of small colleges and universities in Illinois and Iowa. In 1965, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, #11 which served Galesburg, Monmouth, Mt Pleasant and Fairfield Iowa (to n