BB #42, *Exposition Flyer, *has quite an impressive spread on the Naperville
accident with many photos, but one thing I noted is that CB&Q heavyweight
buffet/parlor/solarium observation *Mississippi *was heavily damaged and
then rebuilt at Aurora to stainless steel office car *Round-up* by 1953,
which survives today in private hands. I have an HO Kato model of office
car *Burlington, *which is very similar to *Round-up *and almost accurate to
the diagrams of *Burlington *in Bill Glick's *Burlington Business Car
Diagrams & More.* Rearranging the windows could lead to an accurate model
of *Round-up*, a Naperville survivor.
One question I have on this is why it took 7 years for *Mississippi *to be
rebuilt to *Round-up.* Did the car spend the entire 7 years awaiting
rebuilding in Aurora or was it rebuilt to its heavyweight configuration
before the *Round-up *rebuild? As the stainless steel cars were quite in
style after WW II, why such a long delay to build one?
- John Manion
Denver, CO
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Bill Hirt <whirt@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> The Naperville Sun had quite a collection of pictures of the aftermath
> of the accident. If I recall right, Harold White, who was the editor and
> publisher of the Sun, had just purchased a new camera and was quickly on
> the scene taking pictures. When I worked on the Naperville Central High
> School newspaper in the early-mid 70s, Mr. White was kind enough to
> allow us to reprint several of his pictures in a series one of our
> reporters wrote about Naperville history (at the time, the population
> was highly transient with most people living in Naperville for 2 years
> before moving on - so this was a way to connect students to historic
> Naperville events). The Sun I believe published a retrospective not long
> after. I've never seen these pictures anywhere else as Mr. White had
> used a white ink pen to write copyright Naperville Sun on the images.
> Even though the Sun has been owned by Sun-Times group since the 90s, I
> would think they would still have these images in their files. If I was
> writing an in-depth article or book about this event, I would definitely
> seek these photographs out.
>
> Bill
>
>
> William Barber wrote:
> > Here is a web site that I found which provides some photos and a list
> > of the dead and injured. In most cases, it also shows where the
> > people were from.
> >
> >
>
>
>
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