We've updated the Doerr Collection by adding more photos, in this case numbers 051 through 070. The new additions include several photos of cars and locomotives we've since sold or scrapped, as well as a couple of question marks. You can help answer these questions! Click here to see the new photos.
ALSO, check out Jamie's video of the bilevels pacing the AAPRCO train along the mainline last Tuesday. It doesn't get any better than this!
In picture 53, is the orange and black Milw car the dynamometer car?
ReplyDeleteC Kronenwetter
That's a good thought, but I don't think so. The dynamometer has a large monitor-like duct atop the roof that isn't visible here, plus the dynamometer didn't arrive at IRM until 1992 and I suspect this photo was taken in the mid-1980s.
ReplyDeleteFrank- You suggested in picture 43 that the orange car that's also in 53 might be the Dover Strait. I show it came in 1984, so it's fair game. I think the one in 60 matches up pretty well with the Floyd River, which came in 1986.
ReplyDeleteR. W. Schauer
Best guess for the orange car in pic 053 would be the "Dover Strait" when it was still EJ&E #8766. As for the white coach in picture 003, I'm thinking its might be the CB&Q four axle commuter coach (the future open car "Vista Kallas"). The combine in 044 went to the Pere Marquette #1225 group, I believe it was the Santa Fe wood combine that went to the Ft. Wayne Group for a key of spikes. Rumor was that it had been reduced to a flatcar. Nice to see the CB&Q #90 in pic 068. Some of it is still around. Last summer I dragged the platform railings out of the Material Storage yard. There were a couple of the truck pedestals out there as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the updates and corrections, Richard and Tim!
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