[CBQ] Re: CB&Q "Bulington" Business car on the end of a Northern Pacific train??

["bdurham260" <bdurham260@yahoo.com>]

Picture 712 is the one I am referring too.

Brian Durham

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@...> wrote:
>
> If you are refering to number 48 this is not the "BURLINGTON" but checking 
> Glicks Business car book this is Car 2nd number 100. It was built in 1913 as 
> a private car, bought by the Q in 1931, sold by BN in 1971.
> 
> Office cars carried officials to places they needed to go. Apparantly some 
> official had to go somewhere on the NP so the car was hooked to the NP train.
> 
> Ken Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:30 PM, bdurham260 wrote:
> 
> > I actually have the Burlington on my layout and actually have it on the 
> > tail end of a Northern Pacific train.  I was surprised to see a picture of 
> > this in real life on the link below.  There are a ton of pictures and I 
> > forgot what the number was, sorry.
> > 
> > So this brings me to why would this actually be done in real life? 
> > 
> > http://melpatrick.shutterfly.com/pictures/183
> > 
> > 
> > Brian Durham
> >
>




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