The Study Lark photo ended on a Q calander during the mid 60's.
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Gerald & Virginia Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad History
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 12:49 PM
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> I recall a memo in the late 70's from either GM @
> Janesville, WI or Chrysler @ Belvidere, IL, suggesting to
> the RR's that they would lock all vehicles after driving
> them aboard autoracks, place all keys in trunk of one car at
> the end of "cut" with key of that trunk going to the
> Conductor in a "Company Mail' env to be given to
> consignee.
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> I recall a similar incident to what Steve vividly described
> happening to a car coming to BN's bulk auto unloading yard
> in Naperville. Obviously the person(s) turning on a
> dome light in a car at night made themselves an easy target
> for vigilant RR employees! Some of you may
> recall a Ford TV commercial years ago showing two
> 'knights of the road' sitting in the front seat of a
> convertible discussing all the reasons why they preferred
> Fords; then the camera (apparently mounted on a helicopter)
> pulls away revealing the 2 are atop an auto transport
> speeding down a highway! Hilarious!
>
> The open topped 2 level racks lasted longer than the 3
> level as odd sized truck chassis would sometimes not fit the
> roofed, enclosed version. I know Winnebago still got
> some truck chassis in Forest City (ex-RI branch nee C&NW
> nee UP) into the late 90's and maybe very early 00's.
>
> One of the Burlington's classic company PR photos is of
> Studebaker Larks on auto transports carried on 86'
> flats.
>
> Gerald
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> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: sholding@sbcglobal.net
> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:20:29 -0700
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Railroad History
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> One nite working at Aurora Tower a westbound freight was
> going thru as I made
> the usual inspection. Auto racks use to be open and
> on the top deck of one was
> a guy reading a newspaper by the dome lite of a new
> car. Wonder how long the
> battery held out??
> Steve in SC
>
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> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, August 1, 2010 8:33:19 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Railroad History
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> There was a "camp" at Savanna,IL. It was at the west end of
> the Q yard on
> the North side and just east of the Milw xing. Bob "Gabby"
> Watson pointed
> it out to me one summer night after we caught the w/c on an
> eastbounder at
> the west end. The campfire was glowing brightly. After
> looking at the notes
> in Bud Lintroths latest edition of the "Peavine" history, I
> have to wonder
> if it wasn't on the old C.B.& N. R-O-W.
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> This would have been sometime in the early to mid 70's.
>
> Leo Phillipp
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> Ps-The "Bo's" were also common in Cicero. One night I had
> the "xxxx"
> scared out of me by one as he came up behind me while I was
> walking our train in
>
> depature yard. He just wanted to know which train went to
> Galesburg.
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> On another occasion we pulled one off a CH east of Savanna
> in far below
> zero temps and let him ride in the W/C to Cicero.
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