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[LZadnichek@aol.com]

OK, the image in the second group fully shows the coupler. The earlier  
image, from it's angle, had the knuckle obscuring the open coupler and that's  
what I was questioning. Thanks.
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL 
 
 
  
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Hol - What kind of coupler is that on the Aleutian, or is it some  kind of 
covering for cosmetic purposes?
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
 
 
In a message dated 2/19/2014 3:45:39 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
holpennywagner@msn.com writes:



Here are the other two.

 
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Chris:

Yeah, there are four photos of the Aleutian  in the Barriger collection -- 
all taken in Wyoming.  And I was very  pleased to find them -- see flipped 
and cleaned up copies attached.   The car was purchased by the Q in 1940 from 
the Copper River &  Northwestern Railroad of Alaska, where it had been 
numbered 100 and was the  private car of copper magnate Stephen Birch.  Why the 
Q named it  Aleutian is baffling, since it never came within 700 miles of 
the Aleuts and  the Aleutian Islands while it was in Alaska.  These are the 
only shots  I have seen of this car on the Q before it was rebuilt and 
modernized at the  Aurora shops in 1952, so they were quite a find for me.  The 
Q 
sold the  car to the Missouri Portland Cement Co. in 1966, and when they were 
through  with it it was donated to the National Museum of Transport in St.  
Louis.

Hol