--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "gaedgar66" <vje68@h...> wrote:
...
> Two, the Q had its own trucking company. It began as an
> outgrowth of the Q's bus line and ultimately became a free-standing
> albeit wholly owned Q subisidiary with its own newsletter,
calendars,
> etc. New equipment was shown in the Q's Annual Reports, etc. The
> Burlington (another FIRST!) was the only RR to have a truck line
(the
> part of the bus company) prior to passage of the Motor Carrier Act
> in "35 or so & thus had special grandfathered rights.
...
There is also a nice write-up of how Ralph Budd was instrumental in
creating a complimentary bus-service owned by the Q in: The Railway
and Locomotive Historical Society, #166, Spring 1992, p. 57
Manfred Lorenz
Bonn
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