Charlie,
Knowing Q practices, you may be quite correct. I don't know whether
the power cars were rebuilt at West B. or Aurora, or both. I believe
that the Gas Electrics were both maintained and modified/stripped at
West B. based on photos that I have seen. On my early business visits
to West B. in the late '60s, I was struck by the fact that the
equipment and many of the people had been around for a long time,
including the Shop Superintendent, Lee George. There was a tremendous
amount of experience and knowledge in that shop back then! Drawings
for repairs and modifications were often done with an impromptu
meeting on the shop floor with a piece of chalk and a sketch done on
an end sheet or side panel. They worked, too! While, from a business
standpoint, I didn't agree with all of their practices, I have a very
high regard for what those shop people could do, frugal or not. They
had been doing for themselves for a very long time. They really knew
how to make equipment work. No job was too big for them to tackle and
they were proud of what they produced.
Bill Barber
On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:17 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Re: Q "Suburbanaire" Service
>
> Posted by: "Charlie Vlk" cvlk@comcast.net ncbqguy
>
> Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:20 pm (PST)
>
> Bill-
> You foget how chea... er, thrifty.... the Q was.
> Keep in mind that by the late 40's many of the Gas Electrics were
> either retired or in the process of having their engine
> compartments sheared off in conversion to branchline combines....
> thus freeing up some serviceable parts. I am willing to bet that
> some of those components found their way into the Power Cars!!!
> Charlie Vlk
>
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