>> The car survives today as the BNSF Mississippi River...the only Q office car
>> still with the railroad. <<
- because it was the only low-maintenance lightweight business car on the Q
roster.
The similiar-in-appearence car, "The Round Up", was an ordinary heavyweight,
gussied up with thermopane windows and Budd stainless sheathing, but still
carried (and needed) the original 6-wheel trucks (the key way to tell them
apart if your photograph doesn't show the name plate clearly).
Marshall Thayer
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