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Last month Ken Martin posted a view of CB&Q 4-4-0 No. 53 that led to considerable back-and-forth about the possible occasion of the photo, and also about the trailing car, which Ken subsequently showed us more of (pardon the poor grammar). I still believe this to be a baggage car, and I referenced an early photo at Burlington showing another similar car. Now I've run across a published image of an early B&MR-Iowa train stopped at a depot in Iowa probably in the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can't make out the name of the locomotive, but it trails a similar, though somewhat shorter, baggage car. This was a very common design in the 1860s -- but the iron fishbelly side sill on the Q car remains a very unusual feature, especially with the truss rods just below it. Both images are attached.
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