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Captioned "The Original Super Chief" |
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Slide purchased many years ago. Date is "1936." I did not know the location but Jack D. Kuiphoff saw this posting and sent me the following: "I have many photographs from here, and beleive this is an east bound at West Darling, Arizona." Thanks Jack. Then Willard Seehorn commented "These are EMC 1A and 1B, the same picture appears on Page 6 of Priest's 'The Santa Fe Diesel'. Picture: Captioned 'The Original Super Chief'" Thanks Willard. |
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1/1/1936 Upload Date: 1/10/2007 8:19:13 AM |
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West Darling, AZ |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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ATSF 1A(AA) ATSF 1B(AA) |
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9441 Comments: 4 |
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B&O 50, The Mother of All Passenger Diesels |
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From northeast.railfan.net: "Electro-Motive Corp. model AA passenger locomotive. It was a very historic diesel locomotive, the first passenger road locomotive not articulated to its train. Placed in Royal Blue service (Jersey City - Washington DC.) on 8/22/35, it was transferred to Abraham Lincoln service (Chicago - St. Louis) on B&O subsidiary Alton in 4/36. Following the B&O-Alton breakup, Alton bought it in 5/43. Following WWII, it became GM&O #1200 and served in local freight service and on the Joliet commuter train. Retired in 1956, {it was} donated by the scrapper to St. Louis {the Nat'l Museum of Transport} in late 1958. - James Mischke" |
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7/31/1977 Upload Date: 6/10/2008 10:37:24 AM |
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Saint Louis, MO |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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BO 50(AA) |
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1788 Comments: 2 |
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EMD Boxcab #511 (see text) with CB&Q Afternoon Zephyr Probably Winter 1937-38 |
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Date unknown. The ice on the Mississippi indicates winter. That's the northeast corner (looking west) of the GN Station and the Hennepin Av. bridge over the river. Mike Woodruff saw this posting and sent me the following: EMD 511 and 512 were 1,800 hp boxcabs built in May, 1935, each powered by two 201A Winton engines (basically two NW1 switcher engines) inside carbodies from GE's Erie Works. (B&O 50 which later ran on the Alton Route, and ATSF 1 and 1A which powered the original Super Chief were very similar in appearance and essentially identical mechanically.) The 511 and 512 were never CB&Q engines but were EMD demonstrators. In Otto Perry's book, there are pics of EMD 511 which show it pulling CB&Q train second #1 near McCook, Nebraska in August of 1937, and of EMD 512 shown working on the Super Chief with ATSF 1A near Trinidad, Colorado in May, 1937. Kalmbach's Diesel Spotters Guide says that although CB&Q 9904 Pegasus/9905 Zephyrus were the power units built (in 1936) for the second pair of Twin Zephyrs, "during 1937 and 1938, it was common to see the (Twin Zephyr) consists being led by EMD demonstrator 511, repainted from the original dark scheme to silver for a long period of testing on the Burlington." Since the units are listed as scrapped in 1938, it's probably safe to say that the picture was taken during the winter of 1937-38. Just speculating now, but I'll guess that EMD 511 spent a lot of time on the Burlington and EMD 512 on the Santa Fe while problems with the CB&Q 9904/9905 Zephyr and ATSF 1/1A Super Chief locomotives were being worked out - these units being called "demonstrators" but perhaps serving more as what we would now term "warranty protection" power. |
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1/1/1938 Upload Date: 12/3/2006 11:02:56 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EMDX 511(AA) |
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4490 Comments: 8 |
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What Exactly is This |
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Slide purchased years ago. Date unknown. This is probably either 9906A or 9907A. My guess the train is the SB Moring Zephyr because of all the domes. The slide is labeled "Twin Cities Zephyr" which it certainly is not. Note the second unit is is an E5B. |
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1/1/1955 Upload Date: 6/1/2007 8:19:56 PM |
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La Crosse, WI |
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Unknown |
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CBQ 990X(AA) |
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2455 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
A Faked Meet of The Twin Cities Zephyrs |
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This is a publicity shot of a meet was made in the darkroom, i.e., it never happen as shown. The trains were built by EMC/Budd and delivered in Apri11935. The power cars were diesels and carried a model number AA and, at least initially, could not be disconnected from the train easily. The first A in the model number I assume stood for first series (the second series were Es) and the second A stood for A-unit as opposed to B-unit. Train 9901 became The Sam Houston Zephyr and was destroyed by fire on 12/19/44. Train 9902 became The Ozark State Zephyr and retired 2/54 and scrapped 4/56. Exact date and location of the picture(s) is unknown but certainly soon after the trains were put into service in 1935 and was taken along the Mississippi River bluffs in Illinois (my guess) or Wisconsin. |
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6/1/1935 Upload Date: 6/1/2007 8:19:57 PM |
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Unknown, IL |
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CB&Q |
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CBQ 9901(AA) CBQ 9902(AA) |
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2220 Comments: 3 |
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Meet "Injun Joe" |
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Injun Joe (the name of this shovel nose stainless power unit--you can just make it out on the unit's side) is Tom Sawyers villain. The train was the Mark Twain Zephyr. The massive St. Louis Union Station is picture center. That's a TRRA Baldwin above 9903 and maybe a MoPac unit to the left. Photo date unknown. |
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1/1/1936 Upload Date: 6/1/2007 8:19:58 PM |
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Saint Louis, MO |
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Unknown |
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Station |
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CBQ 9903(AA) |
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3172 Comments: 2 |
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Silver Knight and Silver Princess (9907AB) Guide the Original Denver Zephyr |
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Slide bought years ago. Date of photo unknown. This no doubt is the Denver Zephyr. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Zephyr |
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1/1/1940 Upload Date: 6/1/2007 8:19:59 PM |
| Location: |
Aurora, IL |
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Unknown |
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CBQ 9907A(AA) CBQ 9907B(AA) |
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2047 Comments: 2 |
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CB&Q 9908, the Last pre-E Unit, Could and Did Everything |
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Date unknown. 1000 hp. That little F on the lower front corner means "Front." Duh! |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1955 Upload Date: 6/1/2007 8:20:00 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Joseph, MO |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Roster |
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CBQ 9908(AA) |
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2990 Comments: 4 |
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