Thanks, Don. Yes, powerful medicine indeed. And priceless, not easily repeated.
Hi Ron! This sounds like a Ron Hall I know from around Interbay, Tacoma and invirons. Charlie
Last Wednesday I went to a monthly lunch attended by retired 'rails' from around the Seattle area. I asked a conductor sitting next to me about...
Those photos were posted earlier this month in the Passenger operations forum. Sorry, I don't have any more that were taken on that trip. Charlie
Thanks Chris. The photo was at 19th St in Kansas City, Summer 1968. Charlie
Then I would say the photo my Dad took was definitely that of the Leaky Roof bridge piers. I never had a clue since the slide was so poorly...
Thanks Karl! I'm still a little confused. In your last two sentences you say: ..."the train (meaning 59-58) handled the baggage cars"... then...
I'm curious about the operation of these scheduled trains insofar as how passengers were handled. Notations in passenger timetables published in...
Since I don't have a Facebook account, is there another way you could use to make the link readable?
So, using Karl's annotated 1934 TOPO map, the bridge downstream of the dam would have been the KCC&S line and predates the KCO&S bridge that we...
[ATTACH] After reading your reply to Maggie and reading further in this thread I went back through my Dad's photos and found this additional one...
OK, that fits. I do seem to recall the name now but never had/took the opportunity to meet him. I meet occasionally with some retired GN/NP/BN...
I'm trying to place that name but can't seem to recall him. Can you give my brain a jump start? Did Marvin work on the Frisco or later, the BN?
Ken, If you're asking me for directions I'm sorry to say I can't help. Others on this site could be helpful though.
Separate names with a comma.
