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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Now this a TRUE "heritage" consist!!
(note that battle-scarred GM&O power hauling a colorful, classic string of "newly-inherited" equipment!)
This was taken at Chicago, back in 1972........
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/amtk/amtk-trn301dca.jpg
(courtesy: fallenflags.org) |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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traildriver
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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That was when equipment had "character"!
Each road had their own distinctive detailing...sometimes even different cars on different trains had their own decor...beautiful mural's, drapery, etched glass panels, and other artwork. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver wrote: |
That was when equipment had "character"!
Each road had their own distinctive detailing...sometimes even different cars on different trains had their own decor...beautiful mural's, drapery, etched glass panels, and other artwork. |
traildriver:
Exactly!
As an example, recall, also, the fine, elegant, handsome, and colorful Native American-influenced decor found aboard many Santa Fe cars, especially the "CHIEF".
Back in those days, especially in the forward-thinking early postwar era, the railroads wanted their passengers to feel that they were traveling in true style.....and this was MORE than obvious, aboard so many trains....
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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"Ditto"...........
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf-chief-awp.jpg
*The Santa Fe clearly had respect for the Native American culture of the peoples that once dominated the area in which their trains operated, for many hundreds of years; this was clearly evident in their passenger equipment. |
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traildriver
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | traildriver wrote: |
That was when equipment had "character"!
Each road had their own distinctive detailing...sometimes even different cars on different trains had their own decor...beautiful mural's, drapery, etched glass panels, and other artwork. |
traildriver:
Exactly!
As an example, recall, also, the fine, elegant, handsome, and colorful Native American-influenced decor found aboard many Santa Fe cars, especially the "CHIEF".
Back in those days, especially in the forward-thinking early postwar era, the railroads wanted their passengers to feel that they were traveling in true style.....and this was MORE than obvious, aboard so many trains....
"NYO" |
I recall it very well...in fact, in that wiki article, they showed a picture of the original Super Chief "Navajo", sleeper-lounge-observation car, parked at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden. I used to be a member of the Intermountain Chapter, NRHS, that owned that car, and put it on permanent loan to that museum, after the car was retired from fantrip service.
Inside the car, are some excellent example's of Navajo 'sand paintings'.... |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver:
The Santa Fe was indeed "America's Railroad", in many ways, even though it did not run east of Chicago.
Think of how LIONEL's postwar passenger sets were indeed dominated by the Santa Fe; in the 1950's and 1960's, the SF was duplicated in the many thousands of tin lithographed toys of that era, the timeless "Warbonnet" scheme both flashy and bright (I have many in my collection today, some of which I've had since my long-gone childhood days!)
Mom and I were also VERY partial to NH's flashy and stylish "McGuiness" paint; we'd often gazed at those sleek FL-9's at GCT (and, also, took day trips up to New Haven)
Mom always said of the NH engines, even years later: "They look like they're all dressed up for a parade!"
That huge "N" over an "H" on the noses of the FL-9's and oft-forgotten EP-5 "Jets" still remain clear in my memory today.........ho-hum "generic" appearances were still in the future, back then.....
"NYO"
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Getting "back on track", if you will, here.......
A few years back, I purchased an excellent book off of eBay, entitled "AFRICAN-AMERICAN RAILROAD WORKERS OF ROANOAKE"(Scarborogh)
Though this book does not focus on the Pullman porters per se, it does make mention of them throughout the book.
Also, the book itself is a real glimpse back to the days when black engineers/fireman/conductors were virtually unknown (the book focuses on N&W employees)
Here are a few excerpts that indeed ring true:
".........it was both difficult and frustrating to see many black men that clearly had exceptional talents, but could not move ahead in the railroad, as they had you in a class where you were employed and you had to stay put. ......"
".........my bachelor uncle, a Pullman porter, was not a bitter man by any means, but he was affected by it (prejudice); he recalled, one time, having to train a young white man who was going to be his supervisor......."
".........a black man who became a brakeman was indeed a fortunate fellow, indeed, because, at that time, that was about as high up as you can get, rank-wise, with the Company....."
This book also had personal reminisces from a number of African-American railroad employees.
To say the very least, their stories are powerful, poignant, and, indeed, most enlightening: I recommend this excellent work to anyone.......
"NYO" |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:03 am Post subject: |
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This is worthy of inclusion, here........
In 1964, Ulysess Bryant and Herman Ogletree became the first African-American drivers hired by GREYHOUND.
On their runs, some white passengers refused to board their bus because a black man was behind the wheel; one can only imagine how much guts it took for these two pioneering gentlemen, when they first got behind the wheel........
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