Re: [CBQ] Hand car / service car

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

You got it Archie.  Most high rails are the same way and you had to watch the 
road crossings very close to get across.  A burro on the other had a lot of 
times had an idler flat and on the East End we would run them via signal rather 
then Track and Time until the Rules Dept bitched
Steve in SC





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From: archie hayden <kliner@mywdo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 9:58:17 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Hand car / service car

Rupert,  Under the larger CB&Q letters is the word insulated I  
believe.  Would that mean they would not set signals on the rails?  
Archie
On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Rupert & Maureen wrote:

> Following on from the discussion about "speeders", I found an advert  
> for Hyatt Bearings in the March 1920 Railway Maintenance Engineer  
> featuring a CB&Q "service car", but I can't make out all the  
> lettering on the side. Any suggestions what the words might be? Were  
> these cars numbered?
>
>http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?u=1&num=14&seq=1&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015080061610
>0
>
> Rupert Gamlen
> Auckland NZ
>
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