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That's 100 leaving CUS on one of the NP train sets running on the Q i.e. at this time it's a Q train. From: bdurham260 <bdurham260@yahoo.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 8:25 PM Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q "Bulington" Business car on the end of a Northern Pacific train?? 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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