I rode Amtrak's Desert Wind in 1989, but by then the Las Vegas station was in the lobby of a high rise casino. The coach attendant said that we would make a 10 minute stop in Las Vegas (fuel stop I think), an while some people might get off to play some slots, be sure to be back on the train before it leaves. She said she remembered one lady who did not make it back on the train, but the bigger problem was her child still on the train, who the attendant needed to comfort the rest of the trip.
From my post card collection:
UP_Vegas_Postcard by Edmund, on Flickr
Speaking of Higbee's, Penny, did you ever have the chance to dine at the Silver Grille? I was there in my youth. Still remember the gold fish pond.
Mill's Restaurant, too. Across Euclid and toward E.9th a bit.
Great memories
Cheers, Ed
There should be roller-skating waitresses around that Higbee Tower too!
Woah-ho-ho! That's cool! (I'm an art deco geek by the way. )
Here's another art deco building I wish was still around:
Same me, different spelling!
Interesting Deco train station, to say the least.
But you know what? The more I look at it the more I wonder where the girls on roller skates are delivering food orders to parked cars! Take another look and see if you agree.
Today's photo suggests a design quite appropriate to Las Vegas at the time, when most of the action was on Fremont Street. It would have also been an appropriate design for FEC in Miami in the pre-WW2 era.
Eh, so it's "Farmhouse Style." What's the difference where it is?
It's got a nice big porch for train-watching in comfort!
pennytrains I would have been veruy content living in that big old farm house on the right!
I would have been veruy content living in that big old farm house on the right!
While the house may be old - it doesn't look like it is on a farm, what with its proximity to 'Railroad Street' for its address as well as sidewalk and driveway and the blue house next door.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Yeah, you and me both! Best show in town, and it was FREE!
And today, it's looks like a steam engine drag race is shapin' up!
Considering the location it gives a different slant on the term "street racing."
And today, honorary steam engines!
Check it out! (Although the color I picked for the above might give you a clue.)
Soo Line's first "Colormark" 100 ton aluminum grain hoppers arrived in 1966. The alternative to the grain loading doors on the 1965 boxcars was a "grain door" of plywood or planks nailed across the door opening of a 40 ft. boxcar. Many elevators in Soo Line's territory were not equipped to load hoppers in 1965. The railroad still managed to run solid grain trains (of boxcars) as early as 1964. As the times changed, the boxcars were used for general service.
Soo Line's publicity photo for the "Colormark" hoppers was sent out with a caption asking how many pizzas 3300 busels of wheat would make.
Thanks Balt! Makes sense now.
Flintlock76Yeah, you would think they'd be using covered hopper cars, or something similar. But what do we know? I'm sure they had their reasons. Maybe they preferred cars suitable for multi-use other than single-use.
During that period of time Covered Hoppers had yet to become the 'go to' car for grain transportation as the SOU was still progressing their 'Big John' covered hopper and resulting rates through the judicial system to the level of the Supreme Court. Box cars in grain service were the traditional way to move grain.
During 1965 when I was training on the B&O as a operator, the daylight operator at Shops (in Washington, IN) was tasked with contacting each station on the St. Louis Division to obtain their car orders for the next day as well as ordering 'grain doors' for the next day's grain loading. These figures were compiled into a report and given to the Division's Car Distributor.
Yeah, you would think they'd be using covered hopper cars, or something similar. But what do we know? I'm sure they had their reasons. Maybe they preferred cars suitable for multi-use other than single-use.
Today's "Photo Of The Day" was a bit of a jaw-dropper. It's hard to envision new boxcars being purchased for grain service in 1964. Soo's grain branches must have had some pretty light rail to force that sort of purchase.
I remember seeing the painting in that John Crosby article. The thing that struck me was the crew only cleaned the tender to where the letters spelled "Pennsy."
Looks like they had a sense of humor!
And whether the locomotive hit 120 or not is kind of immaterial, that's a great action painting!
CSSHEGEWISCHI remember seeing a Gil Reid painting showing a PRR T1 cleaned in the same way...
http://gilreid.com/product/1948-prr-t1-5536120mph-plus-unsigned-unnumbered/
Did you know Gil Reid was mentioned in an Ernie Pyle news dispatch during World War 2? When I read the book several years ago I recognized the name right away.
I'll quote from the book compiled from the dispatches, "Brave Men," published in 1944. Gil's mentioned (among others) in a news story about the US Army's 10th Engineers during the Sicily campaign.
" Lieutenant Gilmore Reid came from 846 North Hamilton, Indianapolis. His dad ran the Purity Cone and Chip Company, which made potato chips. Young Reid was an artist and also a railroad hobbyist. He studied railroads with the same verve that some people show in collecting stamps. He once did a painting of a freight train at a small midwestern station, and when he got word overseas that it had been printed in color in a railroad magazine he felt he'd practically reached the zenith of his heart's desire."
Isn't that something? Pretty cool when you read about long-ago events and run into somebody you "know!"
I remember seeing a Gil Reid painting showing a PRR T1 cleaned in the same way, only the name on the tender and the numbers on the cab were visible
Oh yeah. THAT'S railroading!
And today...
Look how the P&WV and the corporate herald are wiped clean on that Pittsburg & West Virginia Mikado! Looks like a bit of company pride on display!
If you can't clean the whole tender, clean the part that says who you are!
There was a "Creepy Trolley Guy" in a Boston LRV at Seashore for a long time...
pennytrains Would be fun to have though. Especially around halloween. Crashing out of the side of your house?
Would be fun to have though. Especially around halloween. Crashing out of the side of your house?
This could almost be considered like a severed head, or perhaps a torso.
I wonder if any museum or tourist line has ever put a decapitated dummy in the cab, as a sort of "headless iron horseman"?
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
A beautiful photo today, "A Steamy Snow Scene," two CPR Mikes rolling through a lovely snow-covered Quebec countryside.
Yes sir, nothing prettier than Quebec in July!
Like that GM&O PA1 between the DL109 and the Erie-builts. I've got pictures from a few years later (1969, to be exact) with a long line of PRR Baldwins and FM switchers on the same track.
"Sic transit gloria mundi" indeed.
I always liked the look of the DL-109's, especially the New Havens. Maybe they weren't too successful on other 'roads but the NH seemed to like them well enough.
Hanging out on the IHB with GM&O DL-109s appear to be a trio of Milwaukee FM Erie-builts, traded January 1963 to EMD for GP30s.
Becky, you're a genius! Why didn't I think of that?
"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!"
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