Thoroughbred Drumhead

[Tom Kepshire]

Anyone have a good clear image of the drumhead?

[Robert Wheeler]

Attached is a scan of my picture of the Thoroughbred drumhead when it was attached to the wall in the Dining Room at the Purdue Memorial Union.

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[Mark Johnson]

Bob:

Do we know what happened to that drumhead when the dining room in the PMU basement was redone? I remember the railroad theme in that room well, there were several decent Monon artifacts there up through the early 80s at least. It would be a crying shame if these were just chucked.

Mark J
Purdue '78

[Robert Gibson]

Someone in the Purdue RR Club might know.

[Robert Wheeler]

I have no idea as to what happened to the Thoroughbred Drumhead and all the other railroad artifacts at the Purdue Memorial Union. I know that the drumhead's location was my favorite spot for dining whenever my travels brought me back to Purdue. It arrived long after I "escaped" with my "genuine imitation parchment" in 1959 and was there when I started making regular visits to football games, The Purdue Road School and other engineering seminars after 1971.

Presently, there is a Tippecanoe Drumhead at the Monon Connection. Also there is a supposed Blue Grass Drumhead alongside it there. I wonder about its authenticity as Numbers 3 and 4 (the post war night train). I, believe, they did not have a lounge car that it could be permanently attached to. As far as I know there should have been only four drumheads. Two for the Hoosier and two for the Thoroughbred. Remember that trains 14 & 15 (Hoosier) and 11 & 12 (Tippecanoe) shared the same equipment daily.

[Steve Dolzall]

Here's a photo of the Tippecanoe drumhead taken while the car was stored in Bloomington 1960. One of the Hoosier tale cars was stored there at the same time.

Steve

[Mark Johnson]

Bob:

I second the motion for the dining room in the Memorial Union...always enjoyed it both as a student and long after. Not every remodeling is an improvement, and most certainly the removal of the railroad theme was in that category. The railroad artifacts were a fixture all through the mid 70s and well after.

Mark J