Re: [CBQ] Burlington & Missouri River Railroad caboose

["Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

April 13, 2020

Alan - GREAT to have you as a new BRHS member!  Welcome aboard (I retired out of the maritime world). My late father M.L. Zadnichek was a CB&Q Division Superintendent.  I well remember the wood way cars (Dad always called them "crummies.")

I can only speculate, but since the A&N had the way car constructed by the B&MR, I'm virtually positive that they would've taken possession of a clone to a B&MR way car of that era.  In fact, it just might've been that the A&N got a newly constructed B&MR way car straight out of the shops.

All the A&N had to do was paint their logo or lettering and road number on the sides and put it to work. For that reason, it's quite likely your way car originally had the corner pockets.  Once you get to restoring the interior, you can closely check for signs of those long removed pockets.

Since you now have a lot more data on the way car's history including photographs, why not combine that with the amazing story and photographs you have about the car's journey to its new home. Write all that up and give it to Dave Lotz who edits the Zephyr. It would be a good read - Louis   

 

In a message dated 4/13/2020 11:23:59 AM Central Standard Time, ak77224@gmail.com writes:

To all who have been so generous in sharing your knowledge, I wish to thank you.  I'm not used to blogs and replying and knowing who I'm replying to and there have been so many contributors I'm not sure who I've thanked.  Just wanted to catch up and make sure everyone knows I'm grateful and astounded at the knowledge base out there!  Louis...I joined the BRHS on the 11th in response to all the help.   This darned Coronavirus thing has me leery of even going to a hardware store for paint but I will start on the caboose resoration this summer.  I figure the first order is to get a new coat of paint on it to protect it from the elements, then get the windows in and the plywood off! 

Louis - your comment about the waycar being a long way from home reminds me of the trip from Boulder, CO to Grand Junction, CO when it was moved.  Due to the excessive height of the caboose on the double drop lowboy trailer, the waycar could not go through the Eisenhower tunnel on Interstate 70.  The clearance on that tunnel is a little over 13 feet while the waycar on the trailer was over 15 feet high so the truck driver had to go over Loveland Pass , crossing the Continental Divide at 11,991 feet, surely the only time the waycar has been that high and the only time it's been on the Pacific side of the Continental Divide!  I've attached a photo of her at the top of Loveland Pass.

Also, Louis, the notion of adding the corner pockets is an intriguing one and I do have some woodworking skills.  I wonder, since the waycar started as an Atchison and Nebraska car, is there any idea if they would have had the corner pockets on this particular car?  

alan

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