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1. [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:08:18 +0000 (UTC)
My grandfather worked for the Burlington in the Depression. In the 1950's I remember him giving my family a porter step box for boarding passenger cars. I have it in my model train room and would lik
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00189.html (11,579 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:11:58 +0000 (UTC)
August 28, 2020 Keith - Please send a couple of scanned images of your step box so we can see what you're talking about. Thanks - Louis Louis Zadnichek II Fairhope, AL In a message dated 8/28/2020 1:
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00190.html (13,199 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:55:00 +0000 (UTC)
Hi, Louis, Thanks for responding. Attached are two photos of the step box. Any suggestions for painting or its background would be most appreciated. Thank you. Keith Erhart On Friday, August 28, 2020
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00202.html (15,407 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:53:01 -0700
As someone who has bought, sold and traded Railroadiana for over 50 years I urge you not to do anything to your step box. You will destroy a wonderful relic as well as it monitory value if you change
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00214.html (11,547 bytes)

5. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 01:05:48 +0000 (UTC)
Joe, Thanks for your input. Is the mustard yellow on the underside the original color? What if my father or grandfather painted the outside blue back in the 1950's. Would that then already cause it t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00216.html (13,096 bytes)

6. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:53:01 -0700
[Edited Message Follows] As someone who has bought, sold and traded Railroadiana for over 50 years I urge you not to do anything to your step box. You will destroy a wonderful relic as well as its mo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00217.html (12,400 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:18:39 -0700
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 previo
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00218.html (11,732 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:18:39 -0700
[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 ma
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00219.html (11,946 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:44:35 -0500
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00220.html (13,151 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:01:57 +0000
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 To: CBQ@groups.io Subject: Re:
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00222.html (16,922 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:23:35 -0500
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00224.html (14,470 bytes)

12. [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:05:33 +0000 (UTC)
August 30, 2020 Keith - I've taken a close look at your step box images. I agree with Leo's comments. My own educated opinion is: (1) The wood step box is authentic. (2) It's original color was musta
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00225.html (21,041 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:49:13 +0000 (UTC)
Louis, Leo, Rupert and Joe, Thank you so much for all of your expertise and taking the time to share your knowledge. I remember this step box being used as far back as the 1950's in our garage and ba
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00229.html (22,684 bytes)

14. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:15:42 +0000 (UTC)
August 30, 2020 Keith - Thanks. Speculation on my part, but from taking a closer look at your images, I'm inclined to believe that your wood step box spent most if not all of its "working life" in an
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00230.html (25,029 bytes)

15. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Leo Phillipp via groups.io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 15:48:57 -0500
One last tidbit. The metal box attached underneath was most likely made in the tin shop at the Aurora shops. Leo On Aug 30, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Louis Zadnichek via groups.io <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00232.html (25,201 bytes)

16. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:00:43 -0700
The metal box attached to the bottom appears to be similar be what the MORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY of Chicago used on its foot stools for decades prior to the AMTRAK era. The stool in question very
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00234.html (12,554 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:00:43 -0700
[Edited Message Follows] The metal box attached to the bottom appears to be similar to what the MORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY of Chicago used on the foot stools it sold to major railroads for decades
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00235.html (12,590 bytes)

18. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:00:43 -0700
[Edited Message Follows] The metal box attached to the bottom appears to be similar to what the MORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY of Chicago used on the foot stools it sold to major railroads for decades
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00236.html (12,617 bytes)

19. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:00:43 -0700
[Edited Message Follows] The metal box attached to the bottom appears to be similar to what the MORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY of Chicago used on the foot stools it sold to major railroads for decades
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00237.html (12,617 bytes)

20. Re: [CBQ] Passenger Car Step Box (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Hardman" <theoneafter909@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:00:43 -0700
[Edited Message Follows] The metal box attached to the bottom appears to be similar to what the MORTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY of Chicago used on the foot stools it sold to major railroads for decades
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-08/msg00240.html (12,855 bytes)


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