Re: Rio Grande Scenic 18 NNG

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> o anderson Wrote:
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> > None of the ex LS&I locomotives would have
> > survived if it were not for the Marquette and
> > Huron Mountain RR. It was one of the first
> > tourist RRs in the US and lasted into the 1980s.
>
> > Three passenger cars and a 2-8-0 with a booster
> on
> > its lead tender truck wound up at Union IL.
> Other
> > 2-8-0 s are all across the US from this place
> in
> > the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where they
> were
> > used or sat in storage for many years.
> > Marquette and Huron Mountain
> Maybe you know the answer to this one....Was the
> owner of
> the tourist railroad named Robinson. Our family
> went on a railfan adventure with a group in a
> Pullman car to Mexico in 1963. Some guy named
> Robinson said his family owned the M&HM RR. He
> was around 20 at the time I would guess. I was
> 12!!!
> Greg Scholl

Greg,
The owner of the M&HM was John Zerbel. Maybe you are thinking of Ed Robinson who was friend of John Vickers. I don't think he had anything to do with the M&HM.

Here is a shot of #18 on the Presque Isle (Marquette), MI, turntable on 7-10-81. I would have never thought that I'd ever see her in steam again much less have the opportunity to fire her in Colorado.

Don C.