Gerald and John
Thanks for the responses.
Other than inspection motorcars, the Burlington's vehicle fleet seems to be
overlooked and rarely gets a mention. John, can you expand on the
Washington limousine?
Rupert
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Re: [CBQ] Engineering vehicles
Starting in the late forties and early fifties, the mechanical
and stores department started getting pick up and stake bed trucks. Some of
the stake beds were war surplus. By 1960, most of the signal maintainers,
linemen and water service repairmen had utility trucks. By the time
of the BN merger, most section gangs, signal
gangs, and B&B gangs had crew cab stake bed trucks, as did most of
the extra gangs. These trucks were not equipped with Hi Rail wheels so they
had to keep motor cars to reach places not accessible by road. There was
even a dump truck assigned to haul coal to the general office building. The
traffic department and operating department had sedans and station
wagons assigned to them and most were painted maroon with a Burlington
Route emblem on the
door. Steve can tell you about the motor vehicles assigned to the Montgomery
stock yard. There was a limousine assigned to Washington, DC!