The Museum has just acquired a train of three Burlington stainless steel bilevel cars, two of which were built in 1950 as part of the very first order for gallery cars, and one of the first cab cars, built in 1965. And at IRM, you get today's news today, not months from now. Read all about it on the Museum website here!
And since I grew up in Downers Grove, it's just like home!
Now if we can find or fabricate a Burlington power car, it can be like the early days of bilevels behind the 1630.
ReplyDeleteTo my knowledge, somewhere between 6 to 10 of them still exist.
Delete#7300, #7302, and #7303 are at the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum in Wichita Falls, TX
#7301 is at the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, KS
#7200 is at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO
#7207 I believe is at the Siouxland Hist. RR Association in Sioux City, IA
#7308, #7309, #7310, and #7311 i believe were generator cars and are currently entombed as dining rooms at the Barstow Station McDonalds in Barstow, CA
-Jacob Wiczkowski
As of my early 1980s visit to NMOT outside St Louis, they had a CB&Q power car on their roster list. It may be a candidate for acquisition or trade?
ReplyDeleteOnce Again, IRM always manages to make every acquisition feel like Christmas Morning, and as someone deeply enthused and somewhat connected with the fabled "Racetrack", this takes the cake. But the funniest part of all this is that Metra still operates sister cars of this type built as early as 1955, but I suppose that's part of the "Charm" of Metra, at least for now.
ReplyDelete-Jacob Wiczkowski