Tonight, while I was digging through a file of important papers that my Dad
kept, I found one of the small, brown CB&Q envelopes (Form 5010) addressed
to Dad. I opened it and pulled out the contents to find a June 8, 1953
Western Union telegram from Liberty Homes of Bay City, Michigan, notifying
my dad that the pre-cut house he and mother had purchased would be ready to
load for shipment to Burlington on July 13th, 1953 and asked that he wire
further instructions. His reply telegram from that same day was there,
along with the prepaid CB&Q Freight Bills (Form 9-8), a CB&Q postcard (Form
70) notifying Dad that the ?freight? was ready for delivery on July 17
aboard NYC car #104185. There was also a Form 743, Constructive Placement
Notice notifying Dad that the car could not be delivered on account of the
inability to receive the car. I knew that my folks had bought and assembled
the house I grew up in, but did not know until tonight, that it was
delivered via the ?Q!? Just out of curiosity, I tried to look up the NYC
car in my Morning Sun NYC equipment book to no avail. Does anyone on the
list have any idea what this car was? I?m assuming it was a box car of some
sort?
Dave Lotz
Pooler, GA
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