Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
A Union Pacific steam locomotive, built in 1941, was returning from a visit to the College World Series in Omaha, when it was called upon to rescue a stuck freight train which needed some extra tractive effort to get over a hill.
More about this locomotive and its history here.
See also my post A Retrotech Adventure.
More than 300,000 vintage 78 rpm records have been digitized and are available on the Internet Archive.
Musical accompaniment for this post from Gordon Lightfoot.
The New England Wireless & Steam Museum is having is annual steam-up this coming Saturday.
I was hoping to go up there this year, but won’t be able to make it. Sounds like a great event for anyone interested.