Gerald Berwald wrote: Thanks Tom for posting that info. The people can also purchase the boods and CD's from me at train shows or by mail and support the Rock...
Mike There was no RI lumber yard EAST of the yard at VErmont St...It would have had to be an IC served place. George Roll had a coal yard on the west side of...
FWIW; have attached the book list with the info inserted, in red for now. Please suggest anything else that could be added if you wish, I try to get number of...
David Engle
RIRocket@...
Jan 1, 2009 8:28 pm
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Jeff, Thanks for forwarding Stu's comments. Glad to know he is still kicking. He probably doesn't remember me, but give him my best next time you communicate...
Dave, You need to make some corrections; what you have listed is basically the info and price of the CD, not the book. The correct title is: Early 20th...
Hello, Just curious how you access the images being discussed in the previous posts. A search for image 1968 brings up everything other than CRI&P results, and...
RITS List and all: Pulled this from the Federal Register.com, [STB Docket No. AB-1067 (Sub-No. 2X)] General Railway Corporation d/b/a Iowa Northwestern...
It's a real privilege to have access on the web to the Illinois Clearinghouse which has some selected aerial photo's that were taken back in the 1938-1941 time...
... Vermont Street that was holding on to two M&StL boxcars? I took a drive down to Vermont Street today just to refresh my memory. Just east of the I.C....
Sorry Dave but the Forest City line is in danger and will more than likely be history within 3 years. As you can imagine, Winnebago business is way off to say...
... Evidently Klemme elevator is no longer a major shipper on the line? Shortly after the UP took over the CNW, I was in Klemme and the sidings there held...
Several years ago there was a fire in the main cement storage bin at Klemme and it had to be demolished. I believe that was the end of shipping grain out by...
Thanks, I was not aware of the Klemmie Fire. Glad to learn they are using Belmond as a loadout. lwa Several years ago there was a fire in the main cement...
Fellow ROCKologists: around 1957-1958 Alfred Hitchcock made a movie from La Salle Street Station starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. It was covered the ...
"NORTH BY NOTTHWEST" What did I win? PAW ... From: ebatesla To: RITSlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:05 AM Subject: [RITSlist]...
Philip for being the first to answer, correctly, you and your wife win a free pass to ride the ROCKET on the Syracuse, Milford Jct., Warsaw & Greater Western...
I find this all very ironic how when you go back a read the article in March 1983 TRAINS and see how many of the elevators up in this area were so tired of The...
The shortline movement, as defined by the Staggers Act ICC 10901 exclusion (New York Dock protection didn't apply to line sales) started off with good...
You won nothing Philip; you misspelled NORTHWEST. (Signed), Dick (The Editor) Gill Don't forget the closing scene of a Southern Pacific train, supposedly in...
An excellent movie for seeing passenger trains, inside and out,is Calloway Went Thataway, circa 1954. Included at least one shot of a Rocket at speed, as I...
By coincidence, North by Northwest is on Turner Classic Movies this afternoon (1/3/09). Jeff ... From: Richard Gill To: RITSlist@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Since we're OT and discussing railroad anomalies in film, anyone notice they moved the Super Chief AND the SP to the East coast during the filming of "Holiday...
And this is the problem with TV and movies about subjects you know something about, especially those runaway-train movies where dumping the air is not even in...
I recall a lumber yard on he west side of of the RI tracks juswt up the street from George Roll. I seem to recall a lumber yard that was on the IC electric...
Hi, Harold, Happy new year to you and yours. Stu and I have kept on exchanging Christmas cards since back in the 70s. It was through Stu that I got Arnold's...
Jeffrey Osman
osmanjeffrey@...
Jan 4, 2009 7:45 pm
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... the later years between Minneapolis and Kansas City? ... It would appear that the answer is no. Per "Rock Island Color Pictorial Vol 1" (by Marre) the...
I found this in Dr. Tihen's notes from the Wichita Beacon. http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/local_history/tihen/index.asp September 7, 1910 ...
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