The following post and inquiry was on today's RLHS list.
> Burlington Bulletin No. 17 Office Cars (Feb. 1987) shows CB&Q business
> car 93 was sold to Sterling and Catherine Hayden of West Redding,
> Calif., in June of 1966. This car was built for Burlington subsidiary
> St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern in 1890, rebuilt and stretched in the
> Aurora, Ill., shops in 1912 and converted to a rail-detector outfit
> car
> in 1958.
>
> I don't know how much Hayden used this for travel or if he rode in it
> at all, so my calling it private varnish may be a bit of a stretch.
> Somewhere deep in my clip files is a newspaper account that as I
> recall
> says he lost the car during a tax dispute with the feds. After that it
> just sat until it was vandalized to the point of being scrapped.
With little comment over the years from those who generally would do
so, Hayden's former CBQ office car sat hunkered down in the weeds on a
siding at the north end of Sausalito, CA (inactive/abandoned NWP) for
many years. It was especially evident to those driving through
Sausalito en route to Muir Woods or Mt. Tamalpais.
A few years ago I broadcasted a general inquiry as to its fate, and
received not a single reply!
Someone must know.
Denny
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