Re: [CBQ] Way car CBQ14699

["Douglas Harding" <doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org>]

More likely the local committee didn’t know as there were no railroad historians involved. They just knew the railroad went through town and they wanted a caboose for their display, any caboose. I have seen many cabooses “stuffed and mounted” that were not correct for the location, repainted for a road that had nothing to do with their heritage. Most likely this local committee went looking for a caboose and the railroad provided one. But somewhere along the trail some “expert” provided the wrong diagnosis as to heritage and other unknowing folks accepted the “expert’s” report.

 

Doug  Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Michael Matalis
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 8:19 AM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Way car CBQ14699

 

I suspect that they faked it because the Q went thru town and figured that a casual visitor wouldn’t care. Personally I would have stuck with BN or waited until a real Q waycar (Ohhh I came so close to typing caboose!) became available. Cost may have entered into this too, I don’t know for sure but the NP car may have been a donation and that can’t be beat when you’re operating on a shoestring budget.

 

 

Thank you kindly,

 

Michael Matalis

Downers Grove IL

 

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On Sep 20, 2018, at 7:31 AM, William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Thanks for the clarification. How many other preserved way cars listed as Q are fake? Whose idea was it to identify the Cassville caboose as Q? Why not just leave it as BN?

Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO

 

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