You sure it wasn't "Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern"? Midwest short line operating much of the former NYC trackage Lafayette (IN) to Kankakee. They also use part of an old Milwaukee Road line along the Indiana-Illinois boarder for car storage.
Extremely railfan friendly group... Sam McCoy and I have tripped through their shops and chased KB&S trains going to Indy in the fall... Good fall photo shoots and fabulous burgers in the bar in Iroquois! Jim Kindraka --- In [email protected], "Michael & Linda Marmer" <mlmar...@...> wrote: > > They transport bird seed in many of the 284 covered hoppers they own. A very > important product in the scope of the GNP, Gross National Product. I am > sure many birds are very happy about this. > > Just kidding, as they do list bird seed as one product they move, by freight > rail. Thank goodness for freight rail. > > Mike Marmer > > > From: Michael & Linda Marmer > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 4:29 PM > To: Toy Trains ; S Scale ; S Trains ; Steve Conard > Subject: [S-Trains] KBS RR > > > > http://www.kbsrailroad.com/index.html > > On our drive to Hancock. MD to go bike riding on the Western MD Rail Trail, I > saw a modern cab tractor trailer hauling a trailer that old looking, green > with white writing on the side, which I thought said, Kansas, Beaverville and > Southern Railroad with white stripes under the writing. > > I never heard of this RR as I figured it had to be a short line. > > I did not find anything for the line when I googled the name, but another > name came up with Kansas being Kankakee and the truck company SCT is located > in GA. > > Mike Marmer > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
