Bill
You refer to "Dayman" in your message. There is a note in the Diagram Books
that eight flat cars class FM-8 (45 foot, 90500-999 built by H&B in 1913)
numbered 90524, 90568, 90612,90861, 90870, 90939, 90932 and 90950 were sold
in March 1942 to "USA Dayman Iowa" . Would there be any connection?
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Ewinger" <b_ewinger@yahoo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] TPW - Q Nuclear train
> Hi Roger
>
> just before world war is when the iowa army ammunition plant was
> constructed.sometime dring the war or shortly there after the aec moved in
> and start build something.i been told it was the war heads for missle.the
> aec left in about 1970 moving to texas from.day and zimmerman were the
> original general contractor for building the plant.th railroad had a
> problem in that everything was beening ship in on the eastern freight rate
> but that rated stop in downtown burlington.contractor would not except
> billing to danville as that was to for west.so we shorted the contractors
> name to dayman to make the junction and billing point.and like lenny said
> the used the general pershing power unit to pull the train-gaurd
> car-atomic cars-and caboose.the train did not last into the burlington
> northern days very long because of the closing.all the above information
> is all second what i hhave been told or read here or other places.
> bill ewinger
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