Re: [CBQ] Fw: Re: Fw: Fwd: Besler Steam Airplane

["Burtron Armbrust, Sr." <wb8ebs@yahoo.com>]

Thank you, very interesting as well as entertaining.  Bring to mind the 
question;  with the termoil in the east & Americas' ongoing oil crisis; does 
steam &/or light rail have aplace in our transportation programs?  Burt




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From: cvlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 6:21:36 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Fw: Re: Fw: Fwd: Besler Steam Airplane

  
While there was a thread on the Besler car before, a friend just sent me a the 
following link to a Besler film showing a single unit car in a Budd-built 
carbody demonstrating on the CB&Q in 1934. While the T&P Micheline two-unit car 
preceded this, this previously mostly unremarked car, built at the Davenport, 
IA 
Besler plant and demonstrated on the CB&Q certainly is interesting especially 
in 
light of the CB&Q building the Pioneer Zephyr in 1934.
Charlie Vlk

Besler was involved with at least one steam powered railcar, along the general 
line of gas-electric powered railcars, and at least one automobile. A two car 
railcar set was on the New Haven. A stainless steel experimental car was built 
at the Davenport-Besler plant and tested on the CB&Q. 


More here:
http://www.archive.org/details/BeslerCo1932?start=0.5 

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