Am looking for a article from a past issue from way back. It might be in the 11/87 issue about a son who took his dad on a SF cab ride in Gallup, NM back around 1965. The title might be Ted’s Last Train Ride. If anyone has this issue, can you verify this article is in the issue? I thus can order it from archive dept. Had the issue but discarded many redundent issues several yrs ago which I now regret. Thanks for help on this matter
| ## Trains## November 1987 |
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With apologies to Fred and Ginger |
Tedd’s last ride |
Where it all began |
Alcos in Arkansas |
In the path of the North Coast Limited |
CEECO: newcomer with 39 years’ experience |
The ugly ducklings disperse |
Search for the all-American shortline diesel |
Recollections of a special mover |
One brief shining moment |
Turntable: What should be preserved from the ICC |
SFbrkman - No, that’s not the one you want. Tedd Young was the President of the ex-PRR Northern Central RR Chapter of the PRR T&HS, and he died at age 36 after a snorkeling accident in Mexico. This article was written by Dan Cupper about his funeral cortege on a special train on the Northern Central RR.
- Paul North.
Probably this one instead:
The last cab ride
Trains, February 1986 page 27
the last cab ride with his father, a Santa Fe engineer
( ATSF, “BREWSTER, ALLEN J.”, REMINISCENCE, TRN )
Let me see if I have it over the weekend and I’ll let you know.
The Feb. 1986 issue above is most likely the one you describe - the ‘Quirk Turn’, Gallup to Grants and back on a Saturday, son was along for the ride, uncooperative head brakeman, dead radio on the lead unit, middle unit of 3 GP7’S kept dying on them but alarm bells would keep ringing, painters at Zuni butane-propoane plant dragged air hose across tracks, EB reefer drag had an old car - loaded with bagged onions - that caught on fire and had to be set out at Grants - local fire co. put it our after a mishap involving a fireman in a white smock and hot ladder rungs and some confusion, switching around and coupling up again, putting out another fire at motorcar set-out also caused by the burning reefer, etc. Let me know if you need any more details.
- Paul North.
Paul: thanks for your help in locating the issue of topic. I did not do my homework good enough as I still have the issue in the files and have located what I was needing. Project completed.
You’re welcome. [tup] Glad it turned out to be that handy - I recall that you’ve been looking for it for a while. Plus, I found a couple of other article I was looking for in the same binder, so it was worthwhile for me, too.
- PDN.