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The '69" is my favorite motorcar..She was the power for the Hastings-Huntley local summer 1956 when I worked that job for two weeks.. I'm not sure when the "rear" end was painted wiht the red-yellow colors. I don't remember that she looked like that nor did I realize until I got "hooked up" with this outfit that she was a double end car. Our engineer Kenny Froscheiser whose son Curtis appears on these groups from time to time was the engineer.. I don't think that he ever changed ends. Here's the routine only one section of which would have "necessitated" a change of ends. On Monday-"Wednesday and Friday we ran Hastings -Huntley..turned on the wye at Huntley then and returned to Hastings. On Tuesday and Thursday we ran over the mainline from Hastings -Sutton and then north to Lushton. At Lushton there was a wye which it seems had been built there when the line between McCool Jct and Sutton was abandoned in 1955. We would turn the car on the wye at Lushton and head back to Sutton...From there (still going in the same direction we would head south over the former KC&O to Clay Center...If we had any cars for CC we would "drop" them in. We would then shove back north waycar ahead and the 68 pulling whatever we picked up and shoving the waycar. At Sutton all we had to do was re arrange our train and then head back to Hastings with the 69 on the head end as God intended.
On my last day on that job the traction motor was overheating and we were at the west end of the Siding at Sutton. It was found necessary to pour some water...yest that's right Pour some water. on the traction motor. Well guess who was lying on the ground under the front (only powered truck) pouring water from a can handed to him by Kenny.
I think that the car went to Lincoln for repairs after than and I never saw her again. Later I learned that she was sold to the "Southern Iowa" Railroad at Centerville IA former electric road. I' not sure where she went from there...Seems like I did see a picture of the 69 sitting in the dead line at Lincoln in one of the Color Burlington Books. I think she went on to her ultimate demise from the Southern Iowa. Everything in the first two paragraphs here are as true as I can make them.from personal experience. Everything after that is "thought to be true, but not guaranteed.
Pete
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From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> Sent: Wed, May 20, 2020 2:13 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Motor cars
By the way, car 9769 was similarly converted into a double-end car and appears here at Hastings, Neb., on July 13, 1960.
Hol
 From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 12:44 PM To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Motor cars
Bill:
The 9765-66 were built as baggage-RPO cars and never had passenger seating. The photo below of the carbody of 9765 shows more clearly that there is not a plated over window at the rear.
Coincidentally, late in its life the 9765's sister car, after being dieselized, was converted into a double-end car and received rear windows for this purpose. The photo below is at West Burlington on October 13, 1956, when the car was waiting to be retired.
Hope this clears up the issue.
Hol
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 10:34 AM To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Motor cars Hol,
The photo of the 9765 carbody in Gladstone, appears to have two plated over windows at the rear. Were they originally glass windows with a very small passenger accommodation or was it for the train crew, or maybe they were always plated over from original manufacture. I know that the cars that were designed for passengers varied in capacity. Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO _._,_._,_
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