Re: [CBQ] Moving wheelsets

["qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Rupert,

To paraphrase Paul Harvey and Our own Pete H. Here is the rest of the story on old

251167. The car had been in service for awhile moving wheel sets pulled from coaches at 14th street going to the Aurora wheel lathe and back. A certain new trainmaster in suburban service asked the head of suburban service why this old,tired,wood baggage car was tacked onto the rear of a westbound suburban train from CUS with first stop at La Grange road  approx. 14 miles out ?  His concern was the dinky,in all probability, reached about 95 MPH  before the jogger set the air for the station stop at La Grange.

The answer he received was that it was felt the wood baggage car wouldn't do well under buff and draft of a freight train !

I couldn't put this rid it in bulletin 51 and will not reveal my source.

Leo Phillipp

On Apr 12, 2016, at 3:06 PM, 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

There was also 251167, ex BA-10C baggage car 1509, which had the end cut out and rails installed along its length. There’s a photo in Bulletin 51 page 66 showing it at the Aurora Shops. It ran between the 14th Street Wheel Shop and the Aurora Shops taking wheel sets for turning in the wheel lathe. There’s also a photo showing a wheel set being loaded into the predecessor wheel car which was converted from a cream car.

 

I suspect that a baggage car was used for this task so that it could be run in a regular passenger train.

 

Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ

 

 

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