Fwd: [CBQ] Edwards motor car

["Tom Burg teb2771@earthlink.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

>From the author of the book on Edwards Motor Cars. TEB

 

The largest single order Edwards ever had was to the CB&Q for 12 cars.  The 500-series matches the order number, but I don't recall what a lightning bolt might represent on the cars.  Incidentally, at least two of those cars still exist; one in Iowa and the other here in NC in Asheville.

Dr. Cary F. Poole,
Assistant Vice President 
for Title IX Compliance 
Gardner-Webb University
Boiling Springs, NC
cpoole3@gardner-webb.edu

 

There’s an undated photo on eBay item 400918580626 showing a motor car at Aurora. It bears no road name or number but has a white lightning (Zorro?) flash on the side.

It appears to be an Edwards car and, assuming that it is a Burlington car, it matches a photo of 503 / 9503 which was scrapped in 1934 with the body being sold to a railroad employee. But what is the decoration on the side?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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