Re: The Round-up (Was Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash)

[Bob Webber <cz17@comcast.net>]

Likely because the stainless is not structural - 
as it would be on the BURLINGTON and other such cars.


At 02:31 PM 4/15/2010, you wrote:
>Found a photo of The Round-up on the Web.  It 
>definitely has the full car length ridge above 
>the letterboard which is what made me think it 
>was a pre-war car.  I wonder why, when the car 
>was refurbished in stainless steel in 1953, that ridge was included.
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>--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>From: Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash
>To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 8:48 PM
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>I also identify a pre-war car by the full car 
>length ridge above the letterboard. I thought I 
>saw a drawing where the Roundup had this 
>feature, but I could be remembering incorrectly.
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>Incidentally. when built, the prewar cars also 
>had gasketed windows and at least one such car 
>on the FW&D retained them until the end.
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