Chicago Bears to or from Green Bay football extras.

[NorthBrit]

@richhotrain

roller skating around indoors and trashing the Vikings. And Da Bears bet dem too.

Ja Bear will be pleased.

David

[richhotrain]

@YoHo1975

That’s why we have those excellent pictures of George Halas and Vince Lombardi standing next to each other looking grumpy.

They don’t look grumpy to me.

[YoHo1975]

They just saw the score of the Vikings game. They were losing.

[richhotrain]

LOL

Could be.

[Woke_Hoagland]

Princeton had an electrified yard for football specials ‘back in the day’ (Yale in particular). Karl R. Zimmermann '65 described how this worked: each train would arrive on one of the tracks, with a GG1 at the front. When the game was over, a light GG1 would be dispatched The first train out would uncouple from the head end, the light engine would bind on, and that train would depart. The ‘released’ GG1 would then attach to the back end of the next train, etc. until the last one left light-engine. This might have been possible with A-A sets of E units, but the trains would have to be at least a car shorter.

You can still see the ‘footprint’ of that yard a bit north and east of the original Princeton station (repurposed as a coffee restaurant when I was last there). The New South administration building was built on the campus end, and the big student parking lot, Lot 22, on the outer end; when I was there in the late '70s you could still see where the throat diverged from the Princeton Junction and Back…

[richhotrain]

@Woke_Hoagland

Princeton had an electrified yard for football specials ‘back in the day’ (Yale in particular). Karl R. Zimmermann '65 described how this worked: each train would arrive on one of the tracks, with a GG1 at the front. When the game was over, a light GG1 would be dispatched The first train out would uncouple from the head end, the light engine would bind on, and that train would depart. The ‘released’ GG1 would then attach to the back end of the next train, etc. until the last one left light-engine. This might have been possible with A-A sets of E units, but the trains would have to be at least a car shorter.

I would pay a small fortune to see that on film.

Rich

[BaltACD]

Way back in the day - The B&A (Baltimore & Annapolis RR) an interurban carrier would work with the B&O to move the Brigade of Midshipmen from Annapolis to Philadelphia where the Army/Navy game was most frequently played. B&O and the B&A both used Camden Station in Baltimore. B&O would send a number of steam powered trains over the B&A to Annapolis to load the Midshipmen, carry them to Philadelphia and return them back to Annapolis after the game. The B&A stopped its own passenger service in 1951 or 52. Don’t recall hearing the last year of the Midshipmen transport.