OK, Al, here is a question: how did Champion McDowell Davis, the president of the Atlantic Coast Line refer to the Seaboard Air Line?
Well , sort of , using a straight timeline the Budd cars would also be worn out . Rule #1 when buying passenger cars , if it’s anything but a Budd car , walk beside the car and strike the side of the car , if you hear chunks of rust falling it’s a Pullman car . Budd cars were entirly Stainless and did not rust on the inside, Pullman cars were stainless over Cor-ten steel and would rot from the inside while the exterior looked great .
The Canadian cars were built by Budd, not Pullman.
I wasn’t sure – because some of the old 1940’s - 50’s streamliners were chiefly built by Budd, but with P-S sleeping cars and (say) EMD HEP. Still, even Budd’s wear out. Anyone been on a late 1970s vintage Amfleet II coach lately? - a.s.
Well, I can’t say “Those A**-holes” in this forum so I’ll put out a WAG of a different color:
“Our dearest friend and severest critic.”
The cars for the Canadian were built by Budd but ride on Dofasco trucks, after all had to get Canadian content. The cars for the Canadian also had additional insulation installed and the glass was from a Canadian manufacturer as well. Similar Canadian content was found on the P/S order for Canadian National. All items were shipped to Budd and P/S where they were installed during construction.
Al - in - Stockton
No, the report of President Davis’ reference that I saw was much kinder, and could even have been said in church. He did evince a great distaste for the rival road.
Kind but showing distaste. Hmmm, sounds like a slogan of politix gone wrong . . . horribly wrong.
But while we’re on the subject of Dofasco, did you hear about this merger:
Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa!!
– Thank you, Danny Sisk, for the great joke. - a.s.
I understand that President Davis simply called the competing railroad, “That other railroad.”
Even though one of my mother’s uncles took part in the surveying of the Seaboard’s line below Petersburg, I am prejudiced towards the Coast Line, as my father operated the overhead crane in the Tampa locomotive shop. Even after his death, my mother was able to get a trip pass annually anywhere in the Southern region, and my interest in railroading began when my brother who was a little older and I took a trip from our home in South Carolina to visit our brother in Baton Rouge and an uncle in Chattanooga. My first trip was not auspicious; I am told that I screamed all the way from Plant City to Lakeland, Fla, on the local.
Just to keep the thread alive here is another question. Name the longest(number of cars) streamlined train produced by St. Louis Car Co. ?
Al - in - Stockton
I’ll guess the Illinois Central Green Diamond trainset.
Sorry Randy The IC Green Diamond was a Pullman Standard product with Winton Power plant.
Al - in - Stockton
OK , I’ll try the Electroliner again .
Still wrong. Keep trying.>
Al - in - Stockton
Postwar Gulf Wind?
Sorry Al no cigar.
Al - in - Stockton
I would say either the two car Delta Eagle of 1941 or the three car Illinois Terminal streamliners. I assume that your question is referring to a train set that was newly built by the St. Louis Car Company, not just put together by a railroad using St. Louis Car Company cars.
Sorry not even close. You assumed correctly they are not just cars put together they were actual consists built and operated that way initially by St. Louis Car Company.
Al - in - Stockton[8D]
L&N’s Humming Bird?? - a.s.