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Here are a couple of photos that pretty well illustrate the kinds of things carried in these side door waycars. The images are of CB&Q 14560, one of the final two Burlington waycars to be given side doors for mixed train service, in 1959. The 14560 was converted
for use on the Edgemont-Deadwood, S.D., mixed and the 14151 for use on the Sterling, Colo.-Cheyenne, Wyo., mixed. Both lasted beyond the 1970 BN merger, and the 14560 was for a time owned by list member Gerald Edgar. These photos were taken in August 1964
when we (the NRHS Intermountain Chapter) took of former Q office car 96 and a heavyweight Pullman on a trip from Denver up to Deadwood and back.
Hol
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Leo's got it right. Those side door waycars were not built and put on branch line trains just to make theml "look pretty"..They were "multi use' vehicles. Even through my relatively late trainman experiences lots
of those branch line locals were "mixed trains" and carried not many passengers, but some of the "acccoutraments" of passenger trains ie in come rare cases U S Mail, and Railway Express. On the last branch line local Il worked in 1958 we always had cream
cans and express. The rear brakeman got paid an extra $40.00 per month for handling the express. Sometimes rather than "take up" an entire boxcar for LCL a few smaller packages were carried in that side door WC. There were also some extra seats in that
open space for the occasional passenger.
Pete
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On a few examples REA express was also handled from the waycar after passenger trains were removed on certain lines.
Leo Phillipp
On Feb 8, 2021, at 12:50 PM, Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
I’ll give you a short answer while waiting for the old heads to weigh in. Peddler waycars were used to deliver LCL traffic on branchlines that didn’t have a coach-baggage-RPO combine on mixed
trains.
Nelson Moyer
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I few years ago I saw a photo of a Burlington side door caboose with the door open and a worker was unloading a couple of packages. Can anyone explain the use of a caboose for package delivery?
hank
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CB&Q 14560, Deadwood, S.D., 8-1964, Hol Wagner photo.jpg
Description: CB&Q 14560, Deadwood, S.D., 8-1964, Hol Wagner photo.jpg
CB&Q 14560, Interior, 8-1964, Hol Wagner photo.jpg
Description: CB&Q 14560, Interior, 8-1964, Hol Wagner photo.jpg
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