Can anyone tell me when the CB&Q started painting their cabooses silver? Thanks
One way to guess is to find the oldest photos possible of a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Caboose painted silver and then ask more questions based upon those facts.
If anybody is interested, BNSF has placed an old Q caboose repainted in silver with full Q markings at the Aurora Transportation Center right near the ticket office on permanent display…she looks really good.
Was it just the home-built slant cupola waycars that they had in silver ?
Most of Burlington’s waycars were red, and only a few were green or orange ?
Yes, I believe it is a cupola waycar that had been a Q car then
BN then BNSF and now repainted in silver. Here is a picture of her just before she was given the full Q decals.
How did they get it there? That track isn’t connected to anything. [:D]
I believe I recall hearing they brought it in on a flat bed truck and lifted it onto the piece of track you see with a big crane.
Bill Knapke’s book “The Railroad Caboose” shows the slant cupola and extended vision cupola cabooses in Aluminum paint. The date for those pictures was 1964. Any picture I’ve seen of a CB&Q/FW&D/C&S steel caboose was in the Aluminum color. Supposed to be 10% cooler than a red caboose.
Contacting the CB&Q historical group would probably get you exact dates.
Jeff
I would recommend to anyone who has an interest in the CB&Q that they apply for a membership in the Burlington Route Historical Society. The BRHS is an excellent source of information and the Burlington Route Bulletin is one of the best publications of any railroad historical society…well worth the cost of $30.00 per year. I dropped my membership in the BRHS a couple years ago because I was having financial difficulties and I had to make a few cuts in my spending habits, but I will eventually rejoin the BRHS.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
I knew that. I was only making a funny, Jim. [:D]
In the backyard of a house on the southeast corner of the cloverleaf at the intersection of Route 47 and Route 30 in Sugar Grove there used to be a caboose. It was so long ago I don’t remember the railroad of origin. Anybody know more about it?
On Rt30/Rt47 about 2 miles south of Sugar Grove there is an ex CB&Q wood box car being used as storage on a farm. It is on the east side of the road.
Bert
Ok, I guess I was having a “way too serious” yesterday [(-D]