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Ride ‘Em While You Can

By Angela Cotey | April 25, 2011

| Last updated on January 8, 2021

Consists for trains on Dave Ingles’ April 1971 trips, as recounted in Summer 2011 Classic Trains

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Eastern trip, April 20–26

PC No. 66, Chicago–Cincinnati, April 20
PC E7 4211 (ex-PRR), PRR B60 baggage car, PC coach 2926 (ex-PRR)

N&W No. 4, Pocahontas, Cincinnati–Roanoke, April 20–21
N&W GP9’s 508/501, 4 head-end cars, coach 532, dome coach 1610, sleeper Buchanan County; diner 493 added at Williamson, W.Va. (train left Roanoke with GP9’s 519/517, 2 storage mail cars instead of 4, same 4 passenger-carrying cars, N&W business car 101 added to rear)

N&W No. 18, Roanoke–Lynchburg–Monroe, Va., April 21
N&W GP9 516, SOU baggage car, 2 SOU 800-series coaches

SOU No. 18, Monroe–Washington, D.C., April 21
SOU FP7 6135, same 3 cars

PC No. 108, Metroliner, Washington–New York, April 22
4 M.U. cars, led by snack-bar coach 858

PC No. 63, New York (Grand Central)–Albany/Rensselaer, April 22–23
T-motor 4622, 3 NYC storage mail, NYC Sleepercoach, PC ex-NYC coach, CP sleepers Willow Grove and Balsam Grove, D&H coach, D&H baggage; no record of diesels Harmon–Albany

D&H No. 9, Montreal Limited, Albany/Rensselaer–Rouses Point, April 23
EL E8’s 829/821, D&H baggage, the 2 CP sleepers, D&H coach

D&H No. 34, Laurentian, Rouses Point–Albany/Rensselaer, April 23
D&H PA’s 16/17, D&H two-tone gray baggage 444, D&H blue-gray coach 1012 (ex-Erie), diner-lounge James Peak (ex-DRGW), D&H coach 1001 (EL colors), PC ex-NYC coach 3638

B&O No. 5, Capitol Limited, Washington–Cumberland, April 24
B&O E9 1454/E8 1448, REA box express, 3 coaches, B&O sleeper-lounge Dana, C&O 10&6 sleeper 2620 City of Charleston, C&O lunch-counter-diner-observation 1921

B&O No. 11-7 (Metropolitan and Shenandoah combined) into Cumberland: E8 1466 (ex-C&O), C&O baggage 266, C&O coach 1644, B&O coach 3574, then cars for B&O No. 7, which departed behind E8 1465 (ex-C&O) with food-bar dome coach 5551, private business car 92 Black Hawk.

B&O No. 11 Metropolitan, Cumberland–Cincinnati, April 25
B&O, E8 1466, C&O baggage 266, C&O coach 1644, B&O coach 3574

B&O No. 1, George Washington, Cincinnati–Carlyle, Ill., April 26
E8 1443, REA box express, C&O coaches 1642, 1628

Midwest-only trip, April 29–May 1

IC No. 11, Hawkeye, Chicago–Manchester, Iowa, April 29–30
E8 4033, baggage (ex-RPO), 4 coaches

IC No. 12, Hawkeye, Manchester–Chicago, April 30
E9 2037 (ex-FEC), baggage (ex-RPO), 3 coaches

IC No. 21, Governor’s Special, Chicago–Springfield, April 30
E6’s 4001/4003, combine 1850, food-bar-coach 3341 (ex-MP), 5 coaches

N&W No. 301, Wabash Cannon Ball, Decatur–St. Louis, April 30
GP9’s 511/521, baggage, diner-lounge 1050 (ex-WAB, coaches 1832 (ex-WAB, 1709 (ex-NKP)

GM&O No 6., Midnight Special, St. Louis–Chicago, April 30–May 1
E7’s 101A/103, 5 storage mail, 1 coach

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