1948 Railroad Fair In Color | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

electrolinerOGR Forum Member

One of my other favorite forums is Railway Preservation News and this post was a real delight to experience in photographs and so it was worth sharing here.

http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35067&sid=1f5951f6d1a3399a264bc30cf7e111f5

5/25/138:03 AM

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jay jayOGR Forum Member

Thanks for posting those pictures, Bruce. I had not seen them before. I have always been interested in the Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948-1949, because I lived just a few miles from the site, but was too young to attend. I wish I had been at least five years older at the time. I asked my parents if they had attended, and they had not (which is amazing to me, because it was so large an event and so close.)

I have some memorabilia from the Fair, however: a brochure, a plate, and a wooden model of the C&NW / Galena & Chicago Union "Pioneer" locomotive (which I have always assumed was from the Fair, but which also may be from the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition).

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electrolinerOGR Forum Member

John

Those seem to be rare collectables from the fair. Thanks for sharing them. I was surprised how clear and colorful those slides were.

Bruce

5/25/1310:12 AM

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