Seems that one of the cabooses used at Champaign on your list Thomas has been sold or donated to I believe someone or some entity around Chicago. It's sad, ...
Groups: Sunday pm: Around 12:30 I heard some scratch, it could have been the 338 arriving, but not sure. At 20:32 the disp asked the 337 (IC 6137) if he would ...
Does anyone have a condensed profile of the CAGY from anytime since 1970 that they would be willing to photocopy or scan for me? This is the railroad from...
Someone is selling an Adlake lantern on ebay. He says it is from the Kosciusko & Southwestern Railway and dates to the 1930's. Pretty interesting claim since...
Chuck, Sounds like the crews up there will have to do the same thing that the crews did when the IC wanted them to hang on and back from Sparta to Captain Mine...
Groups: Monday pm: The local was running around before 09:00, he got a warrant to MP 109 to go to Kellys at 10:10. I heard a little chatter that I assume was...
Some fresh paint is in the CNIC yard in Champaign. Iowa Northern 3800 and 3802 in fresh red/maroon and gray with yellow stripes along with a CSX SD70M add some...
Does anyone out there have any high quality picts or drawings of the Lettering / Herald / Logo for ICG GP-40s, in the early high headlight O&W, i.e., RN# 3011,...
Hey now I like those dirty black engines it is hard to find them any more :-) ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what...
IC 1033 moves south on main 1 as CSX Q535 moves on main 2. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=52067 Thanks for looking, M.J. ===== M.J. Scanlon ...
From progressiverailroading.com: CSXI, CN launch Memphis-to-Northeast trailer service On Feb. 20, CSX Intermodal and Canadian National Railway Co. began ...
That's good to hear some one saying "ready to go down the Mainline of Mid-America" I recently took Amtrack & not once did I hear the conductor tell the...
Rob Doyle
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Mar 3, 2004 3:22 pm
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I am looking for tales, stories, yarns, experiences, remembrances even second and third hand from the Dodgeville branch and the Madison branch. I hope there...
What would Iowa Div'n control have been like in the fifties? I'm thinking about lines west of Waterloo or Ft. Dodge. For example Cherokee to Sioux City or...
Groups: At 23:49 the 337 told the yard office they would be there in 5 minutes. So I assume they swap trians just before midnight. Wednesday: I heard a little...
Didn't the Panama Ltd run from Chicago to New Orleans until it was renamed the City of New Orleans???? I just listened to the song "Panama Limited" by Mike...
The Panama Limited was the overnight luxury train when it ran on the IC from Chicago to New Orleans. The City of New Orleans was the day train over the route....
This might be a crazy crazy question, but since the panama was the fast train between Chi-Nol, why didn't they route it over the cutoff? I believe the cutoff...
. . . .and Judy Garland had the ATSF running from Philadelphia to LA. Song writers are not much when it comes to geography. Chuck Hinrichs Check'n the action...
You answered your own question, in part, Adam: the cutoff was dark territory, thereby restricting passenger moves to--at best--59 mph. A fast overnight ...
I got an email directed to our museum from a "civilian" who asked the following: I would like to know if you have information on the cost of a train ticket ...
HEy all, the M337 made it by me tonight at 2212 hrs with the IC 1035 leading, IC 10XX (EF) IC 625X (EF) and the two afore mentioned Iowa Northern GP38's 3801 ...
That is funny other people have noticed that. I remember growing up as a kid and teen with the old timers if you will ( Very good friends ) talk the old talk....
Groups: Wednesday pm: The local (GTW 5853) returned to Freeport about 16:30 and switched for for awhile. The Disp asked if they were proud of their or if they...
... Train orders were used on entire Div. Waterloo to Fort Dodge was ATS (automatic train stop). Fort Dodge to Tara was ABS. Fort Dodge to Lemars was dark (no...
George, I have a book at home that was published out of Madison, I think, that is a collection of railroad tales from the Midwest. The title escapes me right ...
Don't know the Cross version or have a recording of it. Part of the confusion with the song is due to the different schedules of the old era and the current ...
... huge ... memphis ... I think that you are correct; someone has postulated in their books that a ticket purchase to at least Memphis was required to remove...
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