I know Mr. Klepper knows what this is.
If no one answers this in the next little while, I'll try a different question.
Other thread (answered - LaSalle Street Limited, NYC 1910-1911, CRI&P Omaha-Chicago 30s ) . Overmod is still looking for the upgraded intercity link killed by a highway improvement.
All-right, the CA&E had one named eastbound Aurora - Chicago Wells Street Express. and I think it was the only named train on the Interurban. But I forget the name, and there is no reason the Central could not have used it earlier for a New York - Chaigo Limiited. Possibly some name associated with Chicago Board of Trade?
I thought this had been answered!
A notable consequence of ending service was that, as I recall, one of the railroad's cars was left in the (elevated) terminal when the track approach was taken down.
Bumping this up...any more clues, especially since this question has been around since early May?
Overmod rcdrye Hartford-Bristol-Waterbury (New Haven)? Not at all what I was thinking. but is that route wholly grade-separated, with a tunnel, and wiped out nearly at a stroke by one road improvement?
rcdrye Hartford-Bristol-Waterbury (New Haven)?
Not at all what I was thinking. but is that route wholly grade-separated, with a tunnel, and wiped out nearly at a stroke by one road improvement?
rcdryeHartford-Bristol-Waterbury (New Haven)?
Hartford-Bristol-Waterbury (New Haven)?
Now you're too far east. This is in one of your favorite stomping grounds. Tunnel and grade separation surely identify it...
Boston and Worcester? But not grade-separated entering Boston, where Boston Elevated streetcar tracks were used east of Chestnut Hill.
Mr.Smith is correct in the first half of his thinking. And Mr. Klepper almost certainly aware of the answer...
The critical thing has to do with a certain road improvement.
Bumping this up.....any more clues?
Try further east. At comparable latitude.
I don't have the answer, but I feel like this is an interurban, perhaps in Ohio?
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Bumping this so it doesn't get lost. If this question is too weird, feel free to pose something different.
An Eastern railroad was notable for nearly halving the distance between two important cities with a fully grade-separated route, including a tunnel and a horseshoe curve. A road improvement abruptly ruined its profitability, and it turned briefly to using early railbuses for at least some of its runs; that and a couple of wrecks in quick succession led to its being more or less summarily shut down.
Name the road, the cities, and the type of bus that was used. Extra credit for pictures (which I expect will be forthcoming!)
Overmod got the name and reason so he gets the next question.
CSSHEGEWISCHMy apologies for the delay. For a brief period in the 1960's, EL 5 and 6, the "Lake Cities", operated under a different name. What was the name and reason for the change?
Would that be "World's Fair" -- for 'fairly' obvious reason in '64 and '65?
CSSHEGEWISCH My apologies for the delay. For a brief period in the 1960's, EL 5 and 6, the "Lake Cities", operated under a different name. What was the name and reason for the change?
My apologies for the delay. For a brief period in the 1960's, EL 5 and 6, the "Lake Cities", operated under a different name. What was the name and reason for the change?
Johnny
Waiting for South Shore's question.
Overmod Am I correct in thinking that one of the railroad museums has preserved a Buffeteria car, and has made a request for funds to restore it?
Am I correct in thinking that one of the railroad museums has preserved a Buffeteria car, and has made a request for funds to restore it?
CSSHEGEWISCH Milwaukee Road, with its "Buffeteria" cars on the Morning Hiawatha.
Milwaukee Road, with its "Buffeteria" cars on the Morning Hiawatha.
Wabbash?
The service only shared part of the name with SP's Automat Buffet. The midwestern train carrying these cars still carried first class daytime equipment, including an observation car.
Couldn't be the Pennsylvania, could it?
Automatic buffet? mid-Fifties?
Of course they still had a potload of diners operating 'elsewhere' while that was being run.
We won't go into SP automatic/automat service. There are some essential requirements for actual restaurant automats that are difficult ... or self-defeating ... for railroad use.
Deggesty The Rock Island had Snack Beverage cars.
The Rock Island had Snack Beverage cars.
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