Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash

[Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

Ironically, the office car Burlington is, IIRC, now named Mississippi River.

While the Roundup was built into streamlined configuration in 1953, didn t it 
ressemble a prewar Budd car?

On Mon Apr 12th, 2010 10:42 AM CDT cvlk wrote:

>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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