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Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units
From: "Kenneth H Thompson" <KTHOMPSON4@wi.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:13:35 -0500
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I love it.

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units


> Since the new Bi-Levels look like the clandestine coupling of a Gallery
Car
> with a Pioneer II prototype I don't think any self-respecting Q E unit
would
> join tightlocks with Metra equipment.
> The best thing that can be said is the new units may be less ugly than the
> F59PHIs and definitely less offensive than the Frankenstein units that
were
> built for the Long Island.
> I bet the new Metra cars aren't built to CB&Q standards......guess we have
> forgotten the lessons of the Naperville wreck.  It will be interesting to
> see if the Metra cars last over a half century and counting (I may not be
> around to observe it as I remember going through a brand new Gallery car
> parked for display on the end of the tail track at Prairie Avenue in
> Brookfield in very late 1949 or early 1950 ....as a four year old!!)
> Reminds me of the story that I heard at one of the BRHS meets years ago
> about the CB&Q engineer that went out to Budd to review the (Santa Fe
> design) pre-war coaches and diners.  The Q didn't like the construction,
> insisting that the buffeting strength (may be wrong term, but you know,
when
> they put the carbody on a rack and test the compressive resistance to
> telescoping) were not up to Burlington Standards.
> Mr. Ragsdale from Budd said something to the effect that "This design has
> been made and approved by a Graduate of M.I.T.!!"
> to which the young CB&Q engineer said, "Well, I am a graduate of S.H.I.T.
> and I don't agree with those conclusions!"
> Mr. Ragsdale send an angry telegram to the Corporate Offices dmenading
that
> the Q recall this crude person to which they replied that the employee was
> indeed a graduate of the Sam Houston Institute of Technology!!!
> The Q was proven right when the heavyweight equipment went through the
first
> Silver Inn like a knife through butter.
> I may have heard the story from Bat.....
> Charlie Vlk
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lyle Dowell" <slyone@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Metra Units
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> > matter of taste I guess. I caught a glimpse of two in person a couple
> > weekends ago as they passed by the Naperville station while I was
> > inside. Didn't get a good look but thought they looked pretty sharp.
> > However, a stainless E would be a MAJOR improvement!
> >
> > Lyle
> >
> > <snip>  Unit was rather ugly if you ask me,
> > > but I caught it out of the corner of my eye.  What I
> > > wouldn't give to see an E-unit pulling some Burlington Bi-levels!
> > >
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