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Post by Spikre on Jan 10, 2015 10:31:01 GMT -8
 found this item while looking thru Mainline Modeler,August 1995,page 85: "Those Classic Trains" wanted Investors with $30,000 or more to form a company to produce top of the line Passenger cars,at Popular Prices. they had a St.Louis address. does anyone know what ever became of this golden opportunity ? or know any one that may have made inquires to them ? sounds like another "Continental Flyer" hype job, but with out the ground breaking ceremony. Spikre 
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Post by atsfan on Jan 10, 2015 15:43:59 GMT -8
found this item while looking thru Mainline Modeler,August 1995,page 85: "Those Classic Trains" wanted Investers with $30,000 or more to form a company to produce top of the line Passenger cars,at Popular prices. they had a St.Louis address. does anyone know what ever became of this golden opportunity ? or know any one that may have made inquires to them ? sounds like another "Continental Flyer" hype job, but with out the ground breaking ceremony. Spikre $30,000 never seen again. |
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Jan 10, 2015 19:28:45 GMT -8
Spikre it is spelled Investors.
Okay, grammar 101 is now finished. There was a group down in Saint Louis that took the name St. Louis Car Company it also operated under the name Rail Cruise America. They had an A-B-B-A set of F's. The A-units were the former MARC commuter units with funky squarish anti-climber and huge pilot. They also had a small fleet of Amtrak compatible cars for the excursions. The paint scheme was based on Busch's Manufacturers Railway scheme. Same green and red but with a gold stripe. The company ran excursions and dinner train service out of Saint Louis Union Station until 2005, when the locomotives were sold to KCS and later became Norfolk Southern's executive F-units. The passenger cars were sold off.
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