[Magdalen] Fwd: Night Lull.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

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 From: Cantor03 at aol.com
To: magdalen at herberthouse.orgcon
Sent: 6/21/2015  1:08:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: [Magdalen] Night  Lull.




In a message dated 6/21/2015 12:39:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
romanos at mindspring.com writes:

southside of Chicago used
steam engines when the other runs  used diesel.>>>>
 
The Omaha Road still used steam engines (~'46-'53) on their daily Chicago  
- Duluth
passenger run.  The Detroit area boys who came up for the boys  camp on
our lake always came via that route to Spooner, Wisconsin (where  the
Twin Cities - Twin Ports Omaha tracks united for about 25 miles,  and
therefore a real railroad town).  I always road the bus over to help  with 
the
luggage for the 40 mile trip back over to their camp.
 
Omaha used large locomotives for this route, and it was a thrill to  stand
on the deck of the Spooner Depot to see/hear/feel them come into  the
station area.  
 
That Spooner Depot was, fortunately, converted into a sort of  railway
museum.
 
Omaha Road = Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
 
http://www.washburncounty.com/railroadmuseum/
 
 
 
 
David Strang.