Deja Vu All Over Again:

[wallyworld]

Here we go again.
On line version of television news report on a fire inside of a caboose. Check out the imaginative name of the owner's road. Huh?

Last night I watched a "documentary" on PBS about a woman traveling to Washington DC from Ohio in the 1920's. According to the film, it portrayed her train as being pulled by a diesel with Illinois Central coaches and would you believe, a red caboose tacked to the rear.


http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/052804_ns_caboose.html

[Anonymous]

Chicago Milwaukee Northwestern train line is the original owner of the rails, if you look at mapquest and examine the rails fo various areas, even though they may be owned by UP, BNSF, CSX, Ect, they still maintain the original owners names.

So it's not suprising when a newscast states the rail's name and not the owners name. Occasionally you'll hear refrences to a spill in the SOO line yard, which really wakes you up.

Jay

[jeaton]

That's good, but here is my recent favorite.

A Mississippi newspaper did a story on a small group of fans that sit by an old station and watch CN-IC trains. The reporter's quetion was what are you doing and the reply was "We sit and visit and do some railfanning. Thereafter the group was revered to as rail "FANNERS".

So I don't know, maybe there out there to prevent heat kinks.

[jeffhergert]

I went to mapquest. Near Goose Island, IL it shows as Chicago & North Western (another spot spelled incorrectly Chicago & Northwestern). I went to Homestead, IA on the Iowa Interstate. It still shows as Chicago Rock Island & Pacific. OK, but that's not the original builder. It was Mississippi & Missouri RR that became part of the Rock Island.
I think the reporter in the caboose fire took part of the name off the caboose and somehow mixed in other info to come up with the name.
My recent favorite was when a Des Moines Register reporter in an article about the Iowa Chicago & Eastern called it the Illinois Central & Eastern. Makes me wonder how accurate their non-railroad reports/articles are. Not every reporter is as knowledgeable as Don Phillips.
Jeff