Western Railroad Discussion > Will any Chi-town railfans be Dodge-ing the Cubs tonight?

...just wondering how much a typical Chicago railfan has to dislike baseball to be able to totally ignore a certain, potentially historic sporting contest tonight. Here's one of those "out-on-a-limb" suppositions: CHC 8 ~ LAD 5.
(Of course, if my crystal ball is actually upside down, that might well be LAD 9 ~ CHC 8... ;^)

Lance (ex little-league 3rd baseman)

PS: Were there any passenger trains than ran regularly between Chicago & Cleveland with those 2 cities as the absolute end points?



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Sittin on the fence for this series Lance,especially after my RedSox got their clock reset a couple of weeks ago.
Regards,DK

> PS: Were there any passenger trains than ran
> regularly between Chicago & Cleveland with those 2
> cities as the absolute end points?

None comes to mind. The Cleveland trains (originating or terminating) that I can think of are:

•Pennsylvania
Clevelander (New York - Cleveland)

•New York Central
Cleveland Mercury (Detroit - Cleveland)
Cleveland Limited (New York - Cleveland)
Detroit Mercury (Cleveland - Detroit)

•Nickel Plate Road
Blue Arrow (Cleveland - St Louis)
Blue Dart (St Louis - Cleveland)

Andrew

Posted from iPhone

I gave up on major league baseball years ago, when that jackass Alomar spit in the face of the plate umpire, and the commissioner didn't ban him for life!  So,,,,,,THAT is what MLB was teaching the youth of America????

 

I'll be working on some model railroad projects instead. However if the Cubs should win I may go out for some rioting and looting----err........I mean celebrating later tonight!

HotWater Wrote: > ... I gave up ... when ... Alomar spit in the face...
That was a low point, but I don't quite believe it had the devastating & poisoning effect you're indicating...
I believe our grand old game will be around as long as our great democracy will.

DKay Wrote: > ...my RedSox got their clock reset...
That was sorta abrupt. And there was more than 1 clock getting "reset" (sniffle...)

We always talk as railfans where we would go with that famous "time machine". For me that fantasy tour would go back far enough to photograph the special charter trains that carried Major League teams around in the first half of the 20th Century. (say..... that's a kind of catchy name... ;^)

3rd Base
 



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CSX_ENG Wrote: > ...  if the Cubs should win ...
1945 does seem like a lifetime ago! But then, 1906 is another, even longer lifetime ago...

A sudden thought: If the Cubs win, will Chicago forgive Steve Bartman like Boston did Bill Buckner??? Either way, if the Cubbies win I'd love to be on the resulting express party train. I don't believe there would be any need for flanged wheels because none of those wheels would be touching the rail...

3rd Base (who's on first?)

A line found on "Streamliner Memories"-
From July 15 to October 27, 1956, the New York Central ran its Aerotrain between Chicago and Cleveland instead of Chicago and Detroit.

Steve

Born and raised in LA, life long Dodger fan, Cubs look to be the better team, live in a state where
the governor's family owns the Cubs. Howse that for incidental confusion?

Out

New York Central system train 89 (Forest City) ran Cleveland to Chicago in 1953

Lv Cleveland just after midnight, arrive Chicago 7.10am

Nice looking train with 10-6 sleepers, 6 double bedroom and buffet lounge car

(Night Trains by Peter Maiken, page 377)

The media is trying their best to end our democracy, so that doesn't look good for baseball!

In any case, go Dodgers . They haven't won in a while.

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P Wrote:
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> The media is trying their best to end our
> democracy, so that doesn't look good for
> baseball!
>
> In any case, go Dodgers . They haven't won in a
> while.

Although NOT a baseball fan, even I know that the Cubs haven't even BEEN to the world series in more than 70 years, and it has been more than 100 years since they have actually WON a world series.

Being an SF Giants fan, I simply must favor the Cubs in this series, Giants - Dodgers being one of the great rivalries in US sports, and there are many such great rivalries.                                  And, to the poster "P":  who invited your intrusive, gratuitous and patently untrue political remarks to this BASEBALL party?  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

I've been a Cub fan longer than a railfan. So where am I tonight? At a Boy Scout campout with my son.

Go Cubs, go!
Fan since 1969

Posted from iPhone

Kevink, How could baseball ever compete with ghost stories around the campfire?  Enjoy!  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

kevink Wrote: > ... at a Boy Scout campout with my son...
Rise & shine, guys. And smile brightly! Congrats, Kevin:
the Cubbies are going to the World Series!!!

3rd baseman

Maybe Amtrak will run chartered  trains between the cities?

agentatascadero Wrote:
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> Kevink, How could baseball ever compete with ghost
> stories around the campfire?  Enjoy!  AA

Well, we did all run to our cars to hear Cub's radio announcer Pat Hughes call the top of the ninth!

It is an impressive feat for the two worst "curse" extent to meet in the Series.  That alone should create extra joy for these games.   Then again, only one team loses that curse.    AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

How about calling this the Central Series?  Both teams are in the heartland, and both are on the old New York Central main.  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA