RE: [CBQ] Moving wheelsets

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

Thanks, Leo

Rupert

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 13 April 2016 11:14
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Moving wheelsets

 

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

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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