According to the Sunday River tape, freight service continued twice daily until 1959. Which "second video" are you referring to? ... a regularly scheduled...
I tend to believe the twice daily scenario. If the service was "As needed" the crew would have to work off the extra board with no regular assignment. This...
The tape I was referring to was a semi professional production in VHS that was a compilation of home movies I believe and the quality was minimal in some...
... VHS . . . ... I think that the VHS tape to which Tom referred is entitled "The Roarin Elgin" that was sold by Reminisce Rails of San Dimas, California. It...
Thanks Chuck: You are correct. the information I gave was for the latest book on the CA&E. The book sounds interesting. Have to acquire it and add it to my...
I'm thinking of building a diorama or a display case to put some O scale CA&E cars in and have a few questions regarding the track structure of the CA&E. In...
... scale ... structure of ... rail ... mailing ... than ... Having ... around gaps ... just a ... curious ... The dimensions of the third rail should be...
Does anyone know of an issue of First & Fastest or other article which has detail of the CA&E's track relcation in Forest Park, including the loop-inside-loop...
There isn't much on the reconstruction. There's some good pictures in the new Shore Line Dispatch "Cooperation." After pieceing together bits of info and from...
I have heard two stories about that sad Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The first story claims that CA&E property remained in the Wells Street...
I tend not to believe the first story at all. If there was anything left the company would have sent a truck for it. feel that the reason for the haste and the...
I also remember Joe as being very opinionated; however, a couple of years after his article was published, another fan wrote in to F&F with four pictures of...
In my studying the situation it seems that the CTA westbound arrival track at the new terminal was the westbound main joining qhat had been the westbound...
George, Thanks for the dimensions for the third rail and tie length. I was going to ask about them to verify them, as CERA Bulletin 105 does mention them in...
I was working from memory when I made my post. Took another look; you are correct, it was #421. Page 82 of Shore Line's recent book "Cooperation Moves The...
Can someone tell me what style of lettering the CA&E used to letter their freight motors, specifically Niles #9 and their cabooses? I will need to either buy...
Frank, let me do a little digging about and I'll be abe to tell you. Mitch ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:24:25 PM EST From:...
What a great picture! Would anyone hazard a guess on the exact location? (I'm assuming it's got to be between Castlemuir and the hospital.) And could we get...
... I'll venture a guess that it's north of the point where the side of the road track crossed Illinois Highway 31 (South Elgin's LaFox Avenue) crossed just...
I've heard some unoffical rumblings of a possible special event at IRM to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the last day of operations. Anyone have any...
... I'm glad you asked that question! Some of the details are still up in the air, but we're pretty sure the date will be Sunday, July 1st. (July 3rd is on a...
One of the occasional rewards of restoration work is finding evidence of the individuals who actually worked on the railroad and kept it going for 55 years....
Maybe you can have CA&E equipment take the 50's attired "commuters" to the end of track and leave them "stranded"; there...and have vintage buses bring them...
... to the end of track and leave them "stranded"; there...and have vintage buses bring them back to the IRM grounds. And call the Chicago media to see if...
Street names in Chicago did change over the years...could also be someplace else along or near the line. I don't think shop personnel would necessarily have ...
... evidence ... I ... (first?) ... My wife and I do genealogy and we have access to census records over the internet. Based on the information given, I have...
Randy and all. I've rescanned the photo and played with different settings about 50 times. Latest, greatest version of the scan now in place. The original pic...
All this talk of the shut down brings to mind a question... The shut down occured very early in the month, what happened to those unfortunate enough to have...
The best I can make out on this would be "Bank Gothic." That would be very close but not a match. The ype face is a square gothic. I reply to te July 3rd...
