Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash

["cvlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

The answer is probably lost to history, but I would guess that the 
Burlington had no need for the Mississippi in its pre-crash configuration so 
it did not get rebuilt in kind.
Since they owned the remains (probably covered by insurance??) it likely sat 
at Aurora or Eola until somebody decided that the need for a modern Business 
Car equivalent to the Burlington could be satisfied by using the Mississippi 
and sheathing it with Budd parts which the Aurora shops had Budd 
factory-level expertise in working with having done extensive rebuilds on 
shovelnoses and other equipment.
Charlie Vlk

> 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?


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