Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Waycar #13855

["Randy Hees" <randyhees@gmail.com>]

You (or the group holding/working on the car) absolutely need the way car book.

Donald R Randall, Marion L Reis, Joseph  R Douda, The Burlington Waycars, (West Burlington, IW, Mile Post 206 Publishing, Inc, 2012), ISBN 978-0-9747914-0-1

I appears to be out of print…  there are no copies available on ABE, and one copy on Amazon…

The book will provide you with a car by car accounting…  I don’t know if this is a particularly rare car or even a rare car in preservation, but in this day and age wood cabooses are few and far between, and they are not making new ones.  Any waycar/caboose is an iconic railroad symbol.  

In general this is a class NE-8 standard Burlington 30’ wood bodied, steel underframe waycar.  The CB&Q had multiple classes of 30’ way cars, some with wood underframes, some with steel underframe, followed by by several classes of steel 30’ waycars.

 

For preservation, the steel underframe helps simplify any restoration.  Apparently, this car retains its trucks making preservation simpler and less expensive.  Being a wood bodied car, any preservation should include a shelter to keep the car from deteriorating again.

Randy Hees

 

 

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