Corning-Villisca branch AKA The Tarkio Valley Branch...Corning, MO on the St.
Joe? Omaha line to Villisca, IA via Clarinda IA.
Jim Christen and Charlie Able made the last trip over the full line in Summer
1958, just before it was severed between Northboro, IA and Clarinda...Jim has a
picture of the rear end of the train and it appears that the car being used at
that time was one of the converted motorcar trailers.
Perhaps the 3537 was taken off the line sometime shortly before the line was
severed...would be after 1956 and placed on the Keokuk-Centerville Run which
continued until sometime in the early 1980's when after the passage of the
Staggers act in 1980?most of the Ia and MO as well as others bit the dust.
I have pictures of the 3537 in service if they would be helpful to you.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 8:44 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] branchline combines
Pete, where is that branch. I'm modelling it because it was travelling Keokuk
to Centreville Iowa in the early sixties. Duncan
----- Original Message -----
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] branchline combines
3537 ran on the Corning-Villisca branch..No's 94-93 for many years...Jim
Christen and I rode the line at least once a year starting in 1949 through 1956.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 3:51 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] branchline combines
Charlie,
The car is number 3537, one of eight cars converted for branchline use in
1948-49 from AC&F built coaches. Yes, it had a baggage door cut into it but
kept both coach vestibules. The "rib" is low on the letterboard - maybe a
quarter of the way up between the windows and the roof. Something similar
appears on the 4500 and 6100 coaches.
I'll take a look at some of the cars you mentioned. Thanks.
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Vlk
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] branchline combines
Duncan-
I think I know the type of car you are talking about..... IIRC they are steel
sheathed wood cars.
Some of the Pullman steel sheathed cars had the rib above the letterboard as
well. If you have a car number the exact heritage of the car would be easy to
trace using Glick's books or Joe Douda's source material
I'm not sure there is a really good starting point for the cars. I would look
at the AHM Pullman or some of the IHC Pullmans to use as a "core" kit. Maybe
you'l luck out and the window spacing from one of them will work out. The IHC
cars are all over the map as to height of letterboard, windows, and girder
panels (even though all the Pullmans should be identical) so one might work
out. Thinking about it, the Athearn Coach and Baggage cars might be a starting
point as well... they had a pretty deep letterboard.
It is going to be an extensive kitbash as the car type I'm thinking about was a
coach that had a baggage door cut into the side, so was itself a kitbash.
Charlie Vlk
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