Re: [CBQ] Riveted tank car photo uploaded

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

#973137 is not shown on the FOBN web site but it is not a number I've recorded 
as having originated with CB&Q. At least one TM-3 
tank car #230060 (ex 150060) made it to BN as #974050 but that class were built 
in 1911, not 1912.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "smokyjoe66" <js08ws62@sbcglobal.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 1:11 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Riveted tank car photo uploaded


>
> Recently there has been some interesting discussion about riveted and banded 
> tank cars. In the early 1980s I photographed here in 
> the Brookfield, Missouri yards one of the most curious and beautiful tank 
> cars I have ever seen. It was a short (don't know the 
> exact length) 4-Dome riveted and banded steel tank car. It was not junk; it 
> was being used in Maintenance-of-Way service. I have 
> just uploaded a photo of it to the CB & Q Tank Car Album in Photos. It's 
> number was BN #973137. I do not know if it was originally 
> CB & Q or another railroad involved in the 1970 merger. What particularly 
> caught my attention was the reporting marks which 
> indicated it was built in 1912 !



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