RE: [CBQ] Another Old Loco

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Louis, Rupert and Group:
 
There's no doubt in my mind that this is a baggage or baggage-mail-express car of late 1850s-early 1860s vintage before clerestory roofs caught on.  Compare it to the B&MR-Iowa B-M-E car in the photo on page 14 of Burlington Bulletin No. 23 on Burlington, Iowa.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 07:16:05 +1300
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Another Old Loco

 

Louis

According to the Directors Reports, the Burlington had a pay car between 1865 and 1877.  No pay car was listed in the 1878 Report. No officers cars were purchased that year but the number on the roster increased from 3 to 4. In December 1878, it was announced that all employees outside Chicago would be paid by check so perhaps the pay car was converted to an officers car as it was no longer needed.

Although riding on way car trucks, I notice that the car doesn’t have marker light provision at the top corner of each side, as seen in most early way car photos.

 

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 04 February 2015 06:53
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Another Old Loco

 

February 3, 2015

 

Going through old Emails this morning and cleaning out.... Some speculation was given that the Civil War era car shown was an early way car. If you look closely, there are bars on the window shown. Could this be a pay car, instead? Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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