Lake Forest Live Steamers Railway Museum


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	Deerfield and Roundabout Railway An educational demonstration steam powered 7 and 1/2 inch gauge railway operated by the Lake Forest Live Steamers Railway Museum Incorporated. (Always scroll down to view complete page.)

DRRY Engine No. 326 heading up westward first class train No. 113 near scale mile post 7.5. Train consist includes: DRRY passenger refrigerator car No. 1956, DRRY Railway Post Office, Railway Express Agency and baggage car No. 1911, DRRY Railway Express Agency and baggage cars No. 1869 and No. 1848, and DRRY coach car No. 2449. The coach car is not for passengers and instead is for the rear end train crew members and any dead heading DRRY personnel. The operation of train No. 113 is patterned after former Milwaukee Road train No. 57 a "Fast Mail and Express Train" that operated over night from Chicago to Minneapolis. Train No. 57 was designated as not carrying passengers or baggage. The inclusion of the trains schedule in public time tables indicated the importance the Milwaukee Road placed on informing the general public of its mail and express train services. See excerpts from Milwaukee Road and DRRY public time tables below. Also see full scale practice mail and express train example near bottom of web page. Image recorded by J. G. Hook, April 26, 2014.


	Before present day aviation express services there was Railway Express Agency. Click REA logo for further information at wikipedia.org.






PDF file of Complete DRRY Passenger Train Time Table, Corrected to November 18, 2012

Image below shows full scale practice example of mail and express train operation. Image Title: Mail-Express train in Pennsylvania. Date: January 1923 Creator: Newman-Schmidt Source: The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and The Museum of the American Railroad. Image presented is cropped from the original. Description of image by source: One of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Mail-Express trains, headed by a K4s locomotive with a standard coach on the rear-end, rolls through the Pennsylvania countryside on a cold, dismal day in January. JGH comment: Prior to circa 1950 Standard Code rules generally did not require the headlight to be displayed by day. See the following link: DRRY Transportation Rule 17, Headlights.



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