RE: [CBQ] Edwards motor car

["'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Tom

I thought that the Burlington ended up with a total of 10 Edwards motor cars (KS-Edwards 500, Buda-Edwards 502-504 & 505-508, Porter-Edwards 530 & 552)  Apparently more would have been purchased but 552 was less than successful. Am I missing some?

The “lightning bolt” car bears no number or road name.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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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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