Just a quick guess after a look at the Wilson picture; looks like a B&O
steel round roof baggage car. I think they were painted blue (or at least
some of them were). They kinda look like half of a PRR B70! I think they
might be steel sheathed rebuilds of a wood sheathed car that MR ran Geisel
Drawings of, but I don't know B&O pass equipment enough to nail it down.
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonathanharris@e...
> [mailto:jonathanharris@e...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:23 AM
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Baggage Car Identification?
>
>
> I know this list can be faster than a speeding zephyr in identifying
> equipment in old photos, so here's one that has me stumped.
> Maybe you can
> help.
>
> The upper photo on page 47 of The Burlington in Transition shows the
> Exposition Flyer running through Red Oak, Iowa in 1945. The
> first car in
> the train is a single-door, round-roofed, steel (or
> metal-sheathed) baggage
> car, which doesn't resemble any Burlington car I know. To my
> naive eye it
> looks like a Harriman car. The same (or similar) car appears
> in Wilson's
> Burlington Route Across the Heartland, page 63, as the second
> car in Train
> No. 12 (Ak-sar-ben), about the same location and around the
> same time -- or
> maybe a few years later. Is this a Burlington car? If so,
> which one? If
> not, what's it doing in these consists? Did it come in from
> the WP or SP on
> one of the transcontinental trains?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jonathan
>
>
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