Re: [CBQ] CB&Q loco and H&StJoe mail car

[John Sloan <sloanfamily123@gmail.com>]

Charlie,  Thanks so much I think you have confirmed the conclusion that I have been wrestling with for the past several days.  I will take the photos i have found and use them to create a model as best I can by extrapolation from known measurements, i.e.,  the door is most likely "standard" width and height.

 John

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:

 

I very much doubt that there were drawings prepared for the car.   Very few drawings of anything of the vintage of the car they started with survived and I am sure that if there was anything like that floating around we would have seen it in one of Bill Glick’s books.    I vaguely remember seeing a photo of the car the shops started with but am not even sure of that.   My guess is that the shops had a photo of a similar old-timey RPO and made modifications to make the car look like it.    Note the funky trucks….the CB&Q went in for such designs and it is great that at least one example survived.  The No.7 / No.2 wood beam trucks were more recent (1880???) design for passenger cars /waycars.

Charlie Vlk

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