Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

Leo

Bulletin 59 – Parsimonious?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Leo Phillipp via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, 30 August 2020 1:45 pm
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box

 

I’m not claiming to be an expert. In fact I’ll admit my ignorance on details of step boxes.

But........ I’ll refer you to the just published BRHS Bulletin 61 which contains a paint Life study at the Aurora shops comparing the old yellow with new various shades of green,etc. 

 

Further I’ll add that I suspect the wooden step boxes were made in the cabinet shop at the Aurora shops. Aurora built and rebuilt much of the Q’s passenger fleet. I suggest again, a reference to BB 61 for a picture of a pair of saw horses that I own that were built at the cabinet shop. I suspect many different wooden items were made at that shop. I’ve always felt that the wooden lockers we used in the Aurora,IL depot passenger men’s locker room were built at the cabinet shop.

 

Leo Phillipp

On Aug 29, 2020, at 8:19 PM, Joe Hardman <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net> wrote:



[Edited Message Follows]

I will defer to the CB&Q experts for a definitive answer to your question, but the "musterd yellow" on the bottom very well could be the original finish. Whatever the case may be I stand by my previous post and encourage you not to do anything.

Joe Hardman

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