CShaveRR wrote: As for Cincinnati, you didn't take a small one to Colorado with you, did you? (Seriously, no clue--until I look, at which point I'll disqualify myself!)
As for Cincinnati, you didn't take a small one to Colorado with you, did you? (Seriously, no clue--until I look, at which point I'll disqualify myself!)
I have to disqualify myself too. I knew of another Cincinnati, but had to look at a map to remember exactly where it was. The same with the railroad.
Jeff
I think Joe keeps pretty busy on the outside. Yeah, I'll bet he coulda, too!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
The rain stopped, so I'll go back and enjoy my last 36 hours before the DEMs take over, rendering us locals immobile.
Try this (easy, I hope).....Before 1952 there was a second Cincinnati on the US interstate freight rail network. What state and what railroad am I on?
Carl: Where is Joe? He coulda/shoulda jumped all over this last one!
Oooh! MC, how could you?
You're the winner, though. Lang was a D&TS property, I believe.
But Walbridge (the classification yard) and Presque Isle (the coal-dumping facility), though correctly identified as Hocking Valley in origin (at least for the 20th Century) were C&O facilities from 1930 until 1985 or whenever CSX became the surviving entity.
1. Lang - Detroit & Toledo ShoreLine/DT&I? (CN)
2. Presque Isle -B&O/CSX (Hocking Valley)
3. Stanley - NYC /CR (Toledo & Ohio Central)
4. Walbridge -B&O/CSX (Hocking Valley?)
5. Rossford-B&0/CSX (Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton)
Three wrong guesses, Don.
Hint: I didn't say that the five locations (these are yards) were representative of five different railroads.
CShaveRR wrote: Okay:1. Lang2. Presque Isle3. Stanley4. Walbridge5. RossfordWhat fairly large city am I near?And what railroad (say, pre-Conrail) is connected with each of these numbers?
Okay:
1. Lang
2. Presque Isle
3. Stanley
4. Walbridge
5. Rossford
What fairly large city am I near?
And what railroad (say, pre-Conrail) is connected with each of these numbers?
Stanley - NYC
Walbridge - Chessie (don't know B&O or C&O)
Now the guessing starts:
Lang - DT&I
Presque Isle - Ann Arbor
Rossford - DT&S
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
CShaveRR wrote: wyomingrailfan wrote:New Haven, CT, New Haven RRand this is a wild guess (sort of)Yep--pretty wild! You'll have to come a bit closer to Wyoming.
wyomingrailfan wrote:New Haven, CT, New Haven RRand this is a wild guess (sort of)
Yep--pretty wild! You'll have to come a bit closer to Wyoming.
My last guess: Toledo, OH.
Erie, PA.
Hartford, CT.
CShaveRR wrote:My guess would be Penn Central--they were in the news quite a bit around then (problem is, they no longer had a fortune).
Penn Central it was! Your turn to post a question. - a.s.
Amtrak
Al - in - Stockton
al-in-chgo wrote: NSlover92 wrote:well even though you didnt get the number right you got the rest I guess I can give it to you ;). Yes it was 1968 a few months after the merger, and it was lead by two Penn Central GG1's both dressed in shiny new Black and White Mating Worms. MikeOkay, new question: What company did the August, 1970 edition of Fortune sarcastically credit with "creative accounting" and "virtuoso bookkeeping"?
NSlover92 wrote:well even though you didnt get the number right you got the rest I guess I can give it to you ;). Yes it was 1968 a few months after the merger, and it was lead by two Penn Central GG1's both dressed in shiny new Black and White Mating Worms. Mike
Okay, new question: What company did the August, 1970 edition of Fortune sarcastically credit with "creative accounting" and "virtuoso bookkeeping"?
The entire United States Government.
NSlover92 wrote:Ok I will throw one in, ok when RFK (Robert F. Kennedy) was assassinated the funeral train was run on which RR, and what locomotive(s) lead the train give me the model and how many. Mike
The train ran over the old PRR electrified line (Washington Union/NY Penna.), but the operating company was Penn Central by then. It was hauled by one or more GG-1's, as was a press train that followed.
I'm afraid I can't get more detailed than that. - a.s.
Guys someone ask the next question.
I'll be off line for a week. The wife and I are taking the Eagle up Carl's and Al's (in Chi) way tomorrow night. We're renting a car at Union Station and will drive on to Waukegan to visit the wife's 101 year old dad and her three brothers. I'll catch you all when I get back.
Mark
Mark don't forget that the C&EI was Mopac owned at one time.
I apoligize for not reading the original question. So disregard my two SP trains.
Sorry guys I haven't had much time lately to get to the forums. Their are still many taxes that were put on extension that have to be completed before October 15th. At the same time I am studying for next years taxes. Each year in California and Oregon one must take courses to get or retain a license to do taxes. I guess I will have more time after October 15th.
But just thought I would mention that the SP ran the Owl between Los Angeles and Oakland overnight and The Lark overnight between Los Angeles and San Francisco/Oakland. The latter streamlined since before WW II and the former streamlined only in its final years of operation.
I am particularly suprised that Al-in-Stockton (who I consider to be our resident expert on streamliners) didn't identify at least two of the other trains with bird names. These two were spiffy little streamliners inaugurated by the C&EI in the post WW2 years. They were the Meadowlark which ran from Chi to Cypress in southern Illinois and the Whipperwill which ran on their Chi - Evansville main line. In addition to the previously named Hummingbird, the fourth train was the Cardinal which ran between Chi and St. Louis.
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