The good news is that a caboose from the L&M survives at the Boone & Scenic Valley RR. The bad news is, well, take a look at the picture. It's rotting away on a back track full of other historic equipment suffering the same condition.
I'm not sure how old the picture is, but I'm afraid it's in worse shape now. I haven't seen the caboose in person in years.
http://cencalrails.railfan.net/l&m9srk.jpg
Jeff
Paul, I was only 16 at the time. The previous summer, my brother who was only about 15 months older than I took a trip over the Southern--Charlotte-Atlanta-New Orleans-Chattanooga-Atlanta-Charlotte, and I was really thrilled with travel by train. Somehow, I managed to scrape up the cost of a year's subscription, and kept that up.
That trip would not be allowed by Amtrak even if it had service Birmingham-Chattanooga-Atlanta, for we had no adult to put us on or meet us at most of the stations, we changed trains, and spent three nights onboard. The only question I remember being asked was by the conductor out of Birmingham who took our New Orleans-Chattanooga pass: "Are you two twins?"
Johnny
Wow ! My collection doesn't start until the early 1960's - subscription started mid-1965.
- Paul North.
Yes, Paul, that was in the only issue I ever bought at a newstand, and the account intrigued me. I do have every issue since that one.
A little trivia. The L&M received the very last order of
ALCO RS3s in 1956.
Per the "Chicago and North Western Historical Society" website:
I became interested in learning about the L&M after noticing the logo outline of the C&NW on an abandonded plate-girder bridge adjacent and parallel to the Nickel Plate Trail outside of Glen Carbon, IL visible from Rt.-159. My major breakthrough came from "Trackside around St. Louis 1952-1959 with Jim Ozment" (by James Sandrin, 2000, Morning Sun Books) who wrote: the "Nickel Plate ran parallel to the L&M (C&NW) and Illinois Central from Edwardsville and Glen Carbon to its yard in Madison."
QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe (4) Did the CNW continue local service from Benld to Litchfield some time after the merger?
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