| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9991 on Train 21, the Morning Zephyr, aka the Twin Cities Zephyr, at Aurora, Illinois on September 26, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This train will need to clear the circuit before my train can arrive. I got up early to catch a Dinky from Naperville to Aurora so I could ride a railfans special to West Burlington to see 4-8-4 5632 being overhauled, a job never completed. My train was pulled by a pair of E9's, we (the railfans) hoped it would be 2-8-2 4960. Somewhere I still have my Menk The Fink button, worn by many fans on the trip to express displeasure with the new CB&Q president Louis Menk's decision to discontinue the steam program, and 5632 was sold mid-overhaul to Dick Jensen and ultimately scrapped. |