I have always appreciated both Greyhound and Don's discussions here. They lived the industry. I just smell the diesel exhaust if i am trackside. Big difference.
Ed
Greyhounds, just a quick question on your avatar:
Is that an IC 1100-class Pacific?
Fine-looking machines, those.
And perhaps the Panama Limited?
Interesting article on the Chicago Produce Terminal where a lot of bananas from Gulf ports ended up.
Photo of IC 4-8-2 2603 hustling a long string of reefers north.
http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/08/chicago-produce-terminal.html?m=1
kgbw49Greyhounds, just a quick question on your avatar: Is that an IC 1100-class Pacific?
No. That is a C&IM 4-4-0 making the last passenger stop ever in my hometown, Manito, IL. It was 1953 and I was two years old. My mother used to say I would pull myself up in my crib to watch trains go by. I've been fascinated by railroads ever since.
Realizing my interest, my parents arranged for me to ride that last passenger train from that station stop. It's obviously not my photo.
Mom took me on the train to Havana, IL. My father worked in Havana and he picked us up at the station and drove us all home.
So, I had my first train ride behind a coal fired 4-4-0 American Type in scheduled revenue service.
That is very cool!
MP173 The same attitude as what Mark Cane expressed in "Against All Odds". The railroads in the mid to late 70s seemed to run trains. It later evolved, perhaps not enough, to providing transportation service. There is a big difference. BTW, I am currently reading "The Box" subtitled "How the Shipping Container Macde the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger." The book (I am early...right now Malcom McLean - Sea Land and Matson Lines are starting container service). Pretty good book. Lets hope CN can make good progress with that service. Ed
The same attitude as what Mark Cane expressed in "Against All Odds". The railroads in the mid to late 70s seemed to run trains. It later evolved, perhaps not enough, to providing transportation service. There is a big difference.
BTW, I am currently reading "The Box" subtitled "How the Shipping Container Macde the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger." The book (I am early...right now Malcom McLean - Sea Land and Matson Lines are starting container service). Pretty good book.
Lets hope CN can make good progress with that service.
Post Staggers was hard to cope with.. The top dogs couldn't figure out how to run an enterpirse, besides treating it like a lifesize model railroad..
Port of Gulfports Conterm, ODR (On Dock Rail) is good for 10K' long stack trains. So there's that to help the terminal grow going forward.
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