Dear Brenda, By carefully sanding the existing paint and examining paint chips you should be able to determine what colors the interior of this car was painted...
Hi Tom, Thank you very much for your thoughts and suggestions, and to all who replied to my paint question. This particular project is being finished by the...
Group, I think everyone turned off their computers and went outside for the rest of the summer. This place died about ten days ago. I have always be curious...
We're still at our computers, Chet. It's just that you've answered all our questions and it's too hot to think up new ones right now. But we're working on...
The turntable at the Luther Yard: http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=9&Z=15&X=7422&Y=42861&W=1&qs=%7cSt.+Louis%7cMO%7c Still in use, after...
-hi chet as i grew up in pontiac and my father was the agent there in the late forties thru the early sixties and i was surely a depot rat it seems to me that...
Any idea where the stone was headed? ... -- ... Allen P Rueter o0000o Phone: 314/935-6429 email allen :) artsci.wustl.edu .oO* there are at least three...
... late ... seems to ... it ... power ... 50 ... article ... Lynne, The GP-7's began being used on the branch in the summer of 1951. The railroad took...
Hello Gentlemen, I am writing a book on Chicago commuter train operations past an present. I have some information about the Wabash/N&W service, but more...
I recently bought a DVD on Ebay "Steam Engines of the Wabash Railroad" It's a pictorial review of more than 300 steam photos from the collection of Charles...
These had been cut back from Decatur early in 1964 prior to the N&W leasing of the Wabash Railroad.The five cars used on the trains after 1970 came from a...
Andy, I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for. I was a breakman for the Wabash on the "North end" and have lived in Orland Park since 1958. If you look...
Hello Rich, Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge of the local & commuter service. A friend loaned me his October 30, 1960 Wabash timetable which has...
Rich and Andy, Rich swung and missed when he said that there was no local service after about 1953. Number 12 and 13 operated all the way through the 1950's...
I found 12 and 13 in my April '55 Public Timetable. What would a typical consist be for those trains, Chet? (In other words, how much is Walthers going to get...
... typical ... Walthers going to ... way? Hal, I have a few photos from the late 1940's and early 1950's that show the train with one head-end car and two...
Chet and Andy, Mayby we are not talking about the same thing. I thought Andy wanted info. on local commuter trains between Oland and Chicago. You are right...
Thanks, Chet. My Public Timetable of October 26, 1958, shows #12 and #13 still running on Saturdays, Chicago-Decatur. It also lists #17 and #18 running daily,...
There's another Wabash steam DVD for sale on Ebay. It has a Buy It Now price of 19.95. I have one and would recommend it. Bob Gibson [Non-text portions of...
... running on ... daily, #17 ... no further ... the other hand ... signal" in Orland ... revenue ... Englewood at 7:25, ... passengers from Orland ... hour...
Rick, Very interesting information about working on the North End. Other rails have told me about the crew members having second jobs downtown during their...
Chet and all, I never have seen a picture of the trains out of Orland runing in reverse. There was a wye at Orland so I wounder if that only happened if an...
I have placed a photo to share with the group of an SW-8 working in west Peru yard. It is in the Modeling Peru folder in the Groups Files space. I'll leave it...
Chet, My original sentence said (Just teasing - but you probably know the answer, anyway!) I decided to shorten it for brevity's sake, but if anyone WOULD...
Hi, This is my first post to this group. I've checked the Message list and didn't find this subject. As many of you know, the West Shore RR (oringially NYWS&B...
Hello Gentlemen, A tree decided to take out our power for nearly 24 hours last night. There are still a number of commuter train crew members that have...
Hello: In February 2004 there were some postings on the captioned subject. Some questions were posed but not answered. I will try to answer them now. Given the...
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