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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ehbowen: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jerome Nicholson: [qb] Perhaps we should start considering the other "tracks" on your list. 10. Europe and others? Maybe Germany's Rheingold, Norway's Flamsbahn, the Venice Simplon Orient Express, South Africa's Blue Train, Japan's Shinkansen.[/qb][/QUOTE]The limiting factor is the availability of primary source material [in English--I don't read Japanese!]. Along with my "Official Guides", I've collected about a half dozen copies of "Cook's Continental Timetables" from the '60s through the '80s along with a reprint from 1939. Unlike the Guides, which are (in most cases) an exhaustively comprehensive resource, Cook's seems to be somewhat abridged. Train names are only given for a few major trains (mostly Wagons-Lits sleeping car trains, which company I understand used to be affiliated with Thos. Cook) and I strongly suspect that a number of minor intermediate stops have been omitted. With that said, Cook's is still an excellent resource and I look forward to gleaning what material I can from it in order to give my site some international flavor. However, the international section will probably be the last area to emerge from "construction". If you, or anyone else, have any suggestions as to how I can acquire more primary source information without spending an unreasonable amount of time or money, you will find me very receptive. [QUOTE][qb] 12. Selected Short Lines? Are you referring to (1)the route or(2) the trains on the route? If (1), there is a case for the Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities route, whice was fought over by three different railroads with excellent trains: C&NW's 400s, CB&Q's Zephyrs, and MILW's Hiawathas. If (2), the Adirondack, when it was run (perhaps under another name) by the D&H. If both, the Rio Grande Zephyr. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm referring to the quirky little tidbits which have caught my eye as I page through my Guides. Trains such as the Georgia Railroad's service between Augusta and Atlanta (which survived as a mixed train into the 1980's), the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge, the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine (which never reached Waco, Beaumont, or the Sabine River and which was known to its patrons as the Wobble, Bobble, Turnover and Stop!), and the "Steptoe Valley Flyer" (unofficial name) of the [URL=http://www.nevadanorthernrailway.com/]Nevada Northern[/URL] railway. There are too many possibilities to list them all, but I believe I can work in enough to add some flavor. The Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities route will be well represented on the regular pages of the site, as will the [i]Rio Grande Zephyr[/i] (as it is a successor to the [i]CZ[/i], and I am attempting to document the trains on my list as best I can from their inception to their discontinuance). For the [i]Adirondack[/i] I make no promises, but after I get a good start with the crop which is currently on my plate I intend to be receptive to new suggestions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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