Re: The Round-up (Was Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash)

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

It probably was done because there was no reason to try to make the roof 
continous down to the top of the windows.   They had structural members to tie 
into at the roof/side transition.   Esthetics may have come into play... just 
like attempting to put on full skirts over the trucks, the unbroken expanse of 
small corrugations from the top of the windows thru to the roof would have been 
ugly and would have called attention to the higher profile of the car roof.   
As it is they did a credible job of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear!!!
Charlie Vlk  

Found a photo of The Round-up on the Web.  It definitely has the full car 
length ridge above the letterboard which is what made me think it was a pre-war 
car.  I wonder why, when the car was refurbished in stainless steel in 1953, 
that ridge was included.


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