Chicago's Dearborn Station at 8:55AM on July 30, 1956. The red and gray Monon "Tippecanoe" (on the right with the light on) is departing for Indianapolis. Next to depart, in 5 minutes, will be the Chicago & Eastern Illinois train "Dixieland" (led by the orange & blue F-7) for Miami. The Dixieland would run on C&EI tracks to Evansville, then shift to the Louisville & Nashville and its subsidiary to Atlanta. It then journeyed on the Atlantic Coast Line rails to Jacksonville, Florida, where it shifted to the Florida East Coast for the rest of the 32-hour journey to Miami. Next up, the Santa Fe "Chief" is awaiting departure in exactly 15 minutes at 9:10 for its 38-hour trip to Los Angeles.Not yet assigned an engine, the Wabash Banner Blue is still more than an hour away from boarding for its 11 AM departure for Decatur and St. Louis, but cars are lined up between the "Chief" and the "Dixieland" trains. The PRR sleeper may have arrived on the Santa Fe or be leaving on the ATSF later as part of the New York-Los Angeles interline service. Gordon Lloyd photo.
That's a real nice photo. Lots of action and a very diverse background. It would make a great jigsaw puzzle...
With switch list in hand, the conductor of SP's "Lone Pine Local" hangs on as Engineer Elliot switches tracks. Two SSW Geeps, GP40M and a Phase 2 Geep 60. Mojave CA.
Anyone spot the Champion spark plug covered hopper car above and to the left of the C&IM loco shown above? Here's a model: https://www.scaletrains.com/rivet-c...ed-hopper-gacx-champion-spark-plug-run-4.html
That's what the little devil on his left shoulder is saying. The little railfan angel on his right shoulder is saying, "Stay there and enjoy the KCS Southern Belles before they get repainted!"
The first shipment of "artificial ice" being delivered to Richmond,Texas. The logo on the train car looks a lot like the Anheuser Busch logo. Before folks had refrigerators, they would go down to the ice house to pick up ice for their home ice boxes. These ice houses also became a hangout to have a nice cold beer. Some of the ice houses sold groceries and became the first convenience stores.
Nah, it was mostly water. Unlike natural ice that had sticks, leaves, bugs and fish poop in it artificial ice came with ammonia.
