Re: [CBQ] Test car

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

Hol

 

Thanks for the response and photo.  I am wondering, though, if 204736 might not be one of the earlier cars you refer to, given the number assigned to it. (And what was 204737?)

 

I'll have a search in the Lots for other scale test cars

 

Rupert

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From: HOL WAGNER

To: CB&Q Group

Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:49 AM

Subject: RE: [CBQ] Test car [2 Attachments]

I'm pretty sure it was a scale test car, as I've seen an AFE for an earlier AC&F car than the 204738 and earlier AC&F standard design cars are now known to have existed on the Q.  See the attached photo of 204736; the number is tough to read, but it is visible in this 1930s view.  This, of course, is information that has come to light since these cars were covered in BB 20.  The AC&F builder's view of 204738, completed in November 1916, is also attached for comparison.  Why the 1926 car would be numbered below the 1916 one is something of a mystery, though.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: gamlenz@ihug.co.nz
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:41:02 +1300
Subject: [CBQ] Test car

 

According to an AC&F lot number page, CB&Q ordered a "Test Car" in 1926.  Anyone know anything about this car?

 

Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ

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