- 1. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: Ken martin <kmartin@c...>
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 07:53:40 -0800
- The CB&Q acquired its first motorcar in 1922, an omnibus type from Mack. This was followed by eight gas mechanical cars from Edwards. They then bought a total of 57 gas-electrics of various configura
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00052.html (6,965 bytes)
- 2. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: drale99@a...
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:12:12 EST
- See also "Burlington In Transition". I used to see them on the branch. My dad, a station agent, used to refer to a gas-electric as "the motor". They resulted from the shrinking passenger business on
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00056.html (6,950 bytes)
- 3. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: Ken martin <kmartin@c...>
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:42:36 -0800
- I neglected to mention one of the Edwards has been restored to operation on the Ft. Madison, Farmington and Western just west of Ft. Madison, Ia. Ken Martin
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- 4. RE: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: "Dan Almosnino" <danalm@E...>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:38:24 -0800
- Bachman's doodlebug is a baggage-only (no RPO) prototype with a certain number of passenger windows. The CB&Q had very few RDC's that resemble this type and therefore one has to carefully choose a pr
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00069.html (8,213 bytes)
- 5. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: "M. Thayer" <zephyr@k...>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:37:29 -0600
- The Bachmann motor is 72' long - the Q had virtually no doodlebugs of that compromise length (that I know of) - but there were several baggage/passenger combines - although the passenger compartments
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00070.html (8,477 bytes)
- 6. Re: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Motorcars or RDC's (score: 1)
- Author: Ken martin <kmartin@c...>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:30:22 -0800
- You can not call the Q gas-electric's a RDC, that is a specific type of car built by Budd and the Q did not have any. Below are the baggage-coach gas-electrics the Q had and disposition. No. len. 950
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2001-02/msg00073.html (8,464 bytes)
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