Re: [CBQ] BN/CB&Q customer service van

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Greg
The first I have found is in "Railway Age"  Nov. 20, 1967  "CB&Q Mobilizes its 
Branch-Line Agents"  The cover and a four page article about the agent at 
Aledo, Ill
The van was a radio-equipped Ford P400 painted Red on the bottom a black strip 
on the middle and white top. Had a 8 X 12 birch-plywood office with desk three 
draw cabinet and six foot settee for customers
Vans were put in service two in Feb, and one each in Oct and Nov. 1967.  An 
agent was kept at the most important station with the mobile agent serving in 
this case Joy, Viola, Gilchrist and New Windsor.
The 60's was a period of parring down labor costs this was just one of many
Catch my clinic at Rock Island in Sept. at the Annual Meeting for more on the 
same.
Steve in SC




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Subject: [CBQ] BN/CB&Q customer service van
 


  
I saw a photo this van in a book about Nebraska railroad .Can any help with 
more photo than that one.l would like to do the van.It has both BN and CB&Q 
heralds on it.
Thank for your help.
Greg