This book is at the Forrest park museum in Perry Ia. Its out for anyone to look through. ( surprised me) Also other books on freight car maintanance and such. There is a small part of the museum dedicated to the local roads that once served Perry, but none exist now. The Carnagie museum in Perry has photos of a Hiawatha Atlantic (#5?) on its way through town. Plus a Big Boy, ( unnumbered). Perry must have been quite a rail hub in its heyday....
I've seen a photo of that book, somewhere. I wonder when that Big boy photo was taken? Is it under steam? Or DIT? If the latter, perhaps en route to a museum, post-retirement.
It was actually in the Milwaukee service station filling with water. Its a black and white photo. Perhaps on its way to the U.P. yards in Omaha? I thought it strange to see it in Perry. Milwaukee, the Louie and Iowa interurban is all that was there. Three different lines too..
In the vicinity, none of those railroads were capable of handling steam that heavy on rails. Is it possibly a view taken when the loco was new?
Well that's strange. I will see if I can get some more info on it tomorrow maybe. That was the same line that Milwaukee used for UP passenger service agreement correct?
