Re: Walthers Super Chief - Anyone make the Purchase

On 12/2/03 7:43 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"SleuthRaptorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Brian Paul Ehni wrote:
>> On 11/26/03 8:15 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Matt &
>> Kathleen Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Brian Paul Ehni wrote:
>>> 
>>> 1) Will you include this passenger train in an elaborate "operating scheme"
>>> on
>>> your layout?
>>> 2) If so, how do you foresee doing so?
>>> 
>> Probably not. My layout will be a fictional, wholly-owned subsidiary of the
>> Rock Island named the Bryan, Palestine & Eastern. Equipment will be painted
>> per Rock Island practice, but reporting marks will be BP&E. Think along the
>> lines of the FW&D or C&S, owned by the Burlington.
>> 
>> Not only that, but the Super Chief never ran thru Texas.
> 
> Never say never.  I am certain at least one time the northern mainline
> was closed due to derailment or ? and the train was re-routed along the
> southern main line route of the Chief, through Texas.
> 


I'll accept that. Let me re-phrase that: "It was never _scheduled_ to run
thru Texas."

Brian