Re: [CBQ] Mel Patrick Picture 49 (was Re: CB&Q "Bulington" Business car on the end of a Northern Pacific train??)

[Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

I notice that picture 49 of this collection shows a Burlington pre-war diner-parlor-observation car that has been retrofitted with a rear diaphragm>  Which car was it and when did it get so retrofitted?

--- On Sat, 4/7/12, bdurham260 <bdurham260@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: bdurham260 <bdurham260@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q "Bulington" Business car on the end of a Northern Pacific train??
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 8:25 PM

 

Picture 712 is the one I am referring too.

Brian Durham

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ken Martin
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> On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:30 PM, bdurham260 wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > So this brings me to why would this actually be done in real life?
> >
> > http://melpatrick.shutterfly.com/pictures/183
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> > Brian Durham
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