The Great Northern also purchased a Pendulum car.
Ray Bedard
>From: "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Pendulum Cars
>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:07:35 -0800 (PST)
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>I know that Burlington and Santa Fe each purchased 1 car. Who purchased
>the 3rd car that was able to be sold?
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>Bob Webber <no17@comcast.net> wrote: I sent this out on the PCL
>list on Wednesday, then it occurred to me
>today, that it might have been *this* list that had the interest in the
>cars:
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>Sometime last year (I think) there was some discussion on the
>Pendulum Cars. There were actually 5 cars built. There was also
>some discussion as to what happened to the plans / drawings for the
>cars. Some of the plans, and those for proposed cars, ended up at
>the Pullman Library. Along with photos of the cars, trucks and
>various features. Also various test results, correspondence, etc.
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>Plans were made for sleepers, dining cars, tourist sleepers and other
>cars. Timing is everything, in this case, bad timing for the company.
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>The other two cars were for what seemed to be for test purposes only,
>they were much lower versions of an observation and coach. They did
>not get sold to a railroad, and their ultimate fate is not (yet?)
>known. The file that was found still has to be indexed and
>such. But it is interesting to note that at least some of this
>information that was thought lost was actually not lost at all.
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>Bob Webber
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