[CBQ] Re: waycars

["James S" <Reallylosttexan@aol.com>]

I remember when I was growing up in the 60s seeing a side door way car on the 
old Pampa Branch on the FW&D.  Wish I had a pic, but I don't. If memory serves 
me right, it was a converted waycar.

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
>
> Gloria-
> 
> Side door waycars were an early and late thing on the CB&Q.   
> 
> Some of the 1880's 28 Ft three window cars were built with a small side door
> and there were even older on the CB&Q according to a single picture of the
> Aurora Shops taken sometime around 1870.
> 
> They seemed to have disappeared until the 1950s when several were converted
> from 30 Ft four window and 28 Ft three window cars, probably to replace
> coaches on mixed branchline trains.   There don't seem to have been any
> recorded (even the later cars didn't make the diagram books in their new
> configuration) from 1900 until the conversions.
> 
> This is not counting the NE-5 class cars which were converted box cars (two
> groups; one for WW I and another for WWII) and the CW class combines with
> cupolas.
> 
> Charlie Vlk
> 
> 
> 
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