1948 Chicago Railroad Fair

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:32 am

This is an interesting one from the University of Illinois and Railroads.

Although it has no reference to the Railroad Fair I found it in the collection and suspect it was handed out there.

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:40 am

Apparently the University of Illinois in cooperation with the Peoria and Eastern Railroad produced the worlds' first railway dynomometer car back in 1898.

Never knew such creatures existed.

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:45 am

Steve

Ron Goldfeder · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:21 am

The IC dynamometer car, which has the same instrument in it as the first car shown in the brochure, is at the Museum of Transportation near St. Louis. A few rolls of tracings were found in the car and are in the library there as well. The car is located under the big Roberts Building shed along one of the platforms and its interior is lit up for visitors.

rlsteam · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:49 am

Steve, you're coming up with really interesting material.

I have added your IC and C&O turbine leaflets to my Railroad Fair site. Many thanks.

Richard Leonard

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:02 pm

Ron Goldfeder wrote:

The IC dynamometer car, which has the same instrument in it as the first car shown in the brochure, is at the Museum of Transportation near St. Louis. A few rolls of tracings were found in the car and are in the library there as well. The car is located under the big Roberts Building shed along one of the platforms and its interior is lit up for visitors.

Right you are Ron:

http://www.stlouisnrhs.org/MOT_Treasure ... 201102.htm

I learned something new.

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:04 pm

rlsteam wrote:

Steve, you're coming up with really interesting material.

I have added your IC and C&O turbine leaflets to my Railroad Fair site. Many thanks.

Richard Leonard

You are very welcome. I'm learning as I do this so I'm benefiting as I go.

Steve

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:38 am

While looking for something else, I came across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdEqER8Or4c

The horses in the show should have been a little more discreet. . .

Note that the writer was Edward Hungerford.

rlsteam · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:07 am

Good find -- though that documentary was already linked on my Railroad Fair web page. Edward Hungerford wrote a book called "A Railroad for Tomorrow" that we used to own, but it disappeared long ago. It would be interesting to compare his predictions with today's realities. As I recall, not much of what he foresaw actually came about. One thing I recall was that he didn't think the Milwaukee's line across Iowa would survive, except for a policy of maintaining rail service to all towns with 1,000 or more people. Of course, he was right in one respect -- the line is long gone.

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:02 pm

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:04 pm

This finishes the U of I pamphlet.

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:59 pm

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:01 pm

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:24 pm

This pamphlet states that the model railroad was on display at the fair. I wonder what ever happened to that layout.

Steve

machinehead61 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:49 pm

Steve

1948 Chicago Railroad Fair

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