RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Barriger Photos, CONSOLIDATED INDEX - More additions [2 At...

[Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Louis:
 
It's just a standard AAR bottom-operated coupler, nothing special about it as 
far as I can see.
 
Hol
 
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: LZadnichek@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:59:20 -0500
Subject: Re: FW: [CBQ] CB&Q Barriger Photos, CONSOLIDATED INDEX - More 
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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.
 

  
  

  

  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
 

  
  
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: tc atkins@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 
  15:23:54 -0600
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Barriger Photos, CONSOLIDATED 
  INDEX - More additions

  
  
  
  
  By the way, if #387 is in Thermop, then so is 
  386, which shows the side business car Aleutian. 

Looks like it is at 
  the St. Louis Transportation Museum. I don't know anything about this car, 
but 
  there is a blurb about it here: 
http://www.jeffstrainsite.com/railfan_pics/railroad_museums/stlouis/passenger_index.html
 
  

I'm sure one of you knows all about it.

Chris 
  Atkins
Lewisville, TX

On 2/19/14, 1:50 PM, archie hayden 
  wrote:

    

    CHRIS,  # 387 HAS THAT SAME HILLSIDE SIGN BUT THE 
    MOST INTERESTING ASPECT OF THE IMAGE WAS THE BURLINGTON ROUTE STENCILED 
STEP 
    STOOL THEY ARE USING.  I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT SPECIFIC STENCIL BUT THE 
    ONE I HAVE HAS BURLINGTON OVER THE OVAL OPENING AND ROUTE UNDER IT. 
     BOTH SEEM TO BE TWO TONE WITH WHITE TOP AND PULLMAN GREEN BOTTOM. 
     ARCHIE