Given the traffic spurred by my posting on the Red Wing, I thought I'd post on the Alouette. Here is some of the equivalent info. I'm having some trouble...
There was a request for Gull info. Here is most of what I've got. There are a few more scattered pieces for the pre-WWII period. Yell if you're interested. ...
A great color photo of #6611 is on pg. 27, "B&M, Forest, River and Mountain" by R.W. Jones. It is hard to determine if there are high solarium windows or not,...
Roger Robar
rrobar@...
Jan 1, 2003 12:49 pm
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Most of you have heard by now that there was a paperwork delay in tradsferring the former BAR system into MM&A hands. Apparently this same delay also affects...
... As often happens, posts drift from the original issue. I guess we got into discussing the QC by virtue of its offering connecting service at Newport, VT...
... connection, trains 24 and 25 it appears, must be the gas electric spoken of. Thx. Now I feel redeemed for buying that Van Hobbies CPR gas-electric a few...
... A 1951 issue of "Trains & Travel" (a short-lived re-branding of "Trains") had an article on getting home from New York to ?Chicago? by way of Springfield,...
jbvb@...
Jan 1, 2003 4:55 pm
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Hey Roger, A comparison of that photo with one of the "Cape" cars will reveal the difference. The "Cape" series had large, 3 "panel" solarium windows that...
... parlor-observations started and stopped running...Some time in the early-1950s (presumably after February 1, 1953), the CP parlor- observations were...
... Mountain" by R.W. Jones. It is hard to determine if there are high solarium windows or not, I tend to think there are. ... the "From AAbbey to Zorra..."...
In Jones' "Forest, River & Mountain" there is a photo taken at Lyndonville from a vestibule which shows a parlor car ahead of the boat-tail buff/lnge/obs. B&M...
Two comments: * The Pullman-owned modernized HW FIR-series sleepers were 6-4-4s (six sections, four roomettes, four double bedrooms), not 6-6-4. * The CPR PTT...
You are right John. Just looked at my CP Color Guide book by John Riddel for the comparison. It's a shame this book does not have a photo of the 6600 series...
Roger Robar
rrobar@...
Jan 1, 2003 6:13 pm
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Hi John, If you compare the photo of 6616 on p. 29 of ABBEY TO ZORRA with that of CAPE BRETON on p. 31 you'll note that 6610 has standard "modernized" picture...
For those interested in the Alouette parlor observations, the classic pictures is by Phil Hastings. It appears on the very last page of Kratville, Steam,...
... that of CAPE BRETON on p. 31 you'll note that 6610 has standard "modernized" picture windows within the pier panel plus the obs. platform. They are not...
John & All, My posts are about the SIDE windows, not those facing rear. You/Roger are correct. The REAR windows on both types are long ones. Pardon the...
For whatever it's worth, "Abbey to Zorra..." says that the four remaining cars of this group were scrapped 4/1959 and were, at the time, the last open-platform...
Gee, guys, I'm not having a good day today...Hope this isn't what 2003 is going to be like!! The photo is on page 149 of GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILS...and it's taken...
... taken at Orleans, NOT Lyndonville... ... what I assume is the buffet-parlor(-obs?). But I agree that it doesn't look like a coach. Since you have "Green...
Folks, Just to muddy the water a bit, there's also a couple shots of these obs cars in Beebe's Trains We Rode-Vol 11. One is a close up, from the ground shot...
... "From Abbey to Zorra via Bagdad; Canadian Pacific Railway Passenger Services in the 1950's" by Dale Wilson, soft cover Published in 1980 as volume No. 2 in...
... going-away shot of the entire train. This later shot is not all that clear in the fine detail, and all I can make out is a four digit number that 'appears'...
B&M #3713 is at Steamtown in Scranton PA: http://www.laurellines.org/3713update.html Another Pacific is in Portsmouth NH, unfortunately it is underwater. I...
Just 3713 at Steamtown..... SJW ... From: "Fred Bliss" <fbliss@...> To: "'Boston Maine RR 2'" <BM_RR@Yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003...
It must be that the time I saw the Redwing at North Station was one of the occasions when the solarium end was at the rear of the train. No doubt about the ...
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