Posted November 26, 200618 yr COMMENTARY The bigger the boy, the bigger his toys Sunday, November 26, 2006 MIKE HARDEN Try reminding Barry Fromme of the cheery chestnut "Getting there is half the fun," and he’ll show you a bill for $80,000 to prove otherwise. Fromme recently paid the freight to move a 55-year-old Great Northern Railway dining car from Maine to Columbus, via Montreal and Toronto. A Columbus lawyer, developer and railroad devotee, Fromme is the entrepreneur who hatched the idea for the Depot Conference Center, a meeting place on Old Henderson Road whose centerpiece is a restored train station moved to the site from the hamlet of Brice... [email protected] http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/26/20061126-C1-00.html
November 26, 200618 yr Thought you'd like to see som pix of the "Ranch Car". The rail spur isn't far from where I live, but the site is close off by chain link and the CSX tracks. Still, I managed to squeeze off a few decent shots. This thing will be real nice when restored. Not the close up shot of the car side wher you can just make out the words "Empire Bulider". That was one of the most famous trains of the Great Northern Railroad, and ran from Chicago to Seattle: a classy train in a classy era.
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