Chuck Amstein sent us some photos of his trip from Chicago to Galesburg and back.... in 1962! He writes:
I took #35, the Kansas City Zephyr, outbound and #12 (guess who) back. There's a 50% chance I rode in the same car (Juno) 50 years apart (didn't record the car name then). Unfortunately, no photos of the NZ because it was getting dark when it arrived. I had a simple box camera with size 127 Ektachrome film.
#35 used the former Silver Streak diner-parlor-obs.
I walked over to the yard and the man in the roundhouse office gave me
permission to walk around the yard, plus an employees timetable!
Freshly painted #5631 waiting to go to Sheridan, Wyoming.
CB&Q office car parked near the depot

#3006 had been on display for less than a year. The gate had a lock
on it with a sign "Get key from station agent", which I did...
Sorry about the dark pictures -- ASA 10 film, box camera, on a gloomy day,
17 year old kid on an allowance.
As you can probably tell from the photos, I made the trip mainly to see the
newly installed 3006.

Used my one remaining flash bulb for the cab:


My return parlor seat ticket stub from the Nebraska Zephyr.
1 comment:
The diner, parlor obs car Chuck encountered in 1962 was encountered by Randall in 2012!
http://hickscarworks.blogspot.com/2012/08/national-railroad-museum.html
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