Re: [CBQ] Friendship Train of the late 1940's

[Bill Scott <wscott@optonline.net>]

Wikipedia has an article about the Friendship Train to aid Europe after WWII here: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Train

Wikipedia says, "Originally hoped to collect 80 train car loads of food, the train ultimately collected over 700 cars ($40 million value) of food, clothing, and fuel, paid in part by monetary donations. Many of the donations were made by individuals, such as individual cans of evaporated milk collected from junior high students. Described at the time as a "token gift", the aid was symbolic of the Marshall Plan effort.

The American Historical Society has an article here:

http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/friendship_train.htm

On May 10, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Zephyr fan wrote:

 

OK, I am attaching a photo of what is listed as a FRIENDSHIP TRAIN from 1946. Is this just someones idea of a "what if" car or did the Q really have a car painted like this?

The car can be seen in the PHOTOS section, in a folder titled FRIENDSHIP TRAIN.

Would like to know if this is a Q car.

Ray
San Jose CA

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