You are correct Don!
Strangely enough, Rupert G mentioned a post or two back about Bulletin
#15 that has the information on the "Bomber Boxes" in it (#15 is the
one also about the SSS chair cars)
According to the article the boxes were placed on 53' 6" class FM-14
flat cars and these boxes could carry either fuselage sections or wing
sections of the B-29.
Greg K.
Minnesota
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "D.T" <ne-zephyr@...> wrote:
>
> Isn't this one of the WWII B-29 bomber cars? It was placed on a
flatcar. There are a couple of them in Council Bluffs Iowa and I
think one in Lincoln Nebraska.
>
> Don
> Omaha,NE
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John A. Swearingen
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:04 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Odd RR Car
>
>
> I have posted two photos of a railroad car I spotted on W. Helm St.
> just a few blocks west of Main Street in Brookfield, Missouri.
> Brookfield is historic CB & Q. territory. Can anyone tell me what it
> was used for.
>
> It does not seem to have been cobbled up. There doesn't appear to
> ever have been any side entrances to the car. Rather, the only
> visible entrance to the car was through one end. This is visible in
> one of the photos I have posted. The other photo is of the other
> end and seems to show some monitoring device. There is a number #74
> in a circle visible on the car.
>
> The latch on the end door says "W. H. Minter".
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> ~John
>
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