Chicago, 18FEB'67
Since I'm not the only one who is a sucker for long-hood-forward passenger Geeps, including "torpedo" tube air reservoirs on top, here's another view of Grand Trunk Western's eastbound "Maple Leaf" to Toronto, as it departs Dearborn St. Station. There's lots of eye candy back there at the express shed, including an Erie Lackawanna baggage car, and one of Santa Fe's omnipresent RS1 switchers is likely sorting out more express from the inbound mail train that should have arrived from L.A. last night. For me the crown jewel is that set of three stubby horns on the front of the long hood - yes, that is the front. Whenever I hung around Griffith, Indiana, waiting for a train from one of those railroads to show on the horizon, I knew that the "kazoo" horns (as I called them) signified the frantic passage of passengers or freight headed to or from Michigan and Canada, and I'd better be ready...those multiple diamonds at the railroad crossings did NOT slow down "the Trunk"!
Chicago, 18FEB'67
Since I'm not the only one who is a sucker for long-hood-forward passenger Geeps, including "torpedo" tube air reservoirs on top, here's another view of Grand Trunk Western's eastbound "Maple Leaf" to Toronto, as it departs Dearborn St. Station. There's lots of eye candy back there at the express shed, including an Erie Lackawanna baggage car, and one of Santa Fe's omnipresent RS1 switchers is likely sorting out more express from the inbound mail train that should have arrived from L.A. last night. For me the crown jewel is that set of three stubby horns on the front of the long hood - yes, that is the front. Whenever I hung around Griffith, Indiana, waiting for a train from one of those railroads to show on the horizon, I knew that the "kazoo" horns (as I called them) signified the frantic passage of passengers or freight headed to or from Michigan and Canada, and I'd better be ready...those multiple diamonds at the railroad crossings did NOT slow down "the Trunk"!