Simms Collection -- Crandic

The Simms Iowa collection covers most of the Iowa interurbans.  We'll start with the Crandic.

All captions are taken from the prints unless otherwise noted.  Most of them are from a fan trip in 1939 using car 109.  

Iowa City    May 29 1939     WCJ

Regular Pass. meets the
109 we didn't have the face
scorching meets we had on the
Indiana RR.  These boys really do
a good job of railroading

[RH: Regular car is 117]

[Also, I am guessing that "face scorching meets" means that on the Indiana RR the extra would pull into the siding, and the regular car would fly by at full speed.  On the Crandic they evidently had time to stop and say hello!]

This was taken on our fan trip on
the Crandic.  I don't know the name
of the station.

[Coralville, Ia.  --  see first comment below]

We stopped at this substation
so that the M. M. could cut
it in.  A storm from the night
before had knocked it out.

extra 109 goes in the hole
for a freight.  The crandic has
some cabooses but they never use
them.  I don't blame them either they
sure are off the list.  They use
a three man crew, so they really
don't need 'em.

Crandic #51
Cedar Rapids    July 1939

Cedar Rapids   May '43   (GK)