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From: dave@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Dave Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Old Varnish?
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 12:36:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 12:36:13 1986
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There was a private showing of about 40 private railcars at the Amtrak station
in milwaukee this weekend, sponsored by the NHRS(?). I forgot about the show
until late sunday afternoon at which point half the cars had left. Donning
a pair of dirty gloves and cheap clothes, I wandered into the station area
and acting as a rail worker was not noticed while looking over the equipment.

I got a tour of the car "Good Cheer" of some NHRS chapter in Texas, which had
offered both one day and round trips on this car which came up from texas on
the Eagle to chicago, then to milwaukee for the weekend, and then back to texas
via new orleans. The daily runs were on  the order of $40 stop to stop, and
a round trip to and from texas to club members was $900 which included amtrak
sleeping accomodations.

The show was preceeded by an Amtrak derailment in Park Falls (?) Wisconsin.
Although still under investigation, rumor is that there was a lack of
communication between Amtrak and Soo Line work crews who switched the train
around a section of trackwork. The trackage before the switch was rated at
70mph, and switch speed supposedly is 10mph max. The engines jumped and rolled
over in a muddy bog, the cab filling with mud and asphyxiating one crew member.
One Amtrak car overturned. 8 or so other people were hurt seriously of 250
passengers. This train was also pulling 5 or so old coaches for the show. One
damaged it's "Waukesha" propane engine.

Question: A collegue of mine mentioned that some time ago someone posted
info about a magazine dedicated to private cars. Could anyone fill me in
with this info?


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Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee
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