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Author:  ted66 [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Rock Island commuter equipment question

Folks,
This car is a long way from Union; and remember that the museum already has 5 or 6 Rock Island commuter cars. They have spent a lot of volunteer hours getting them in shape to host major events like Thomas the Bank engine at the museum.

Ted Miles, IRM Member

Author:  patentable [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Rock Island commuter equipment question

Didn't IRM purchase two RI commuter cars from the Galveston museum which were inundated with salt water during a hurricane? Last I read on a blog or Rail & Wire was that IRM was building wheel chocks for them? What happened to these cars? Presumably scrapped? Parts source?
Bob

Author:  CREEPING DEATH [ Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Rock Island commuter equipment question

patentable wrote:
Didn't IRM purchase two RI commuter cars from the Galveston museum which were inundated with salt water during a hurricane? Last I read on a blog or Rail & Wire was that IRM was building wheel chocks for them? What happened to these cars? Presumably scrapped? Parts source?
Bob


There was 3 cars in Galveston at one time, I rode them as a kid. They degraded substantially over the years - Galveston's salt air is bad for steel - and were last seen in one of the yards near the Museum.
There was a photo posted on facebook recently, but I can't find it.

CD

Author:  Randy Gustafson [ Thu Jan 04, 2018 2:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Rock Island commuter equipment question

Looking at that compilation of surviving RI cars, I'm mystified.

Texas State Railroad has an entire fleet of ex-Rock Island commuter cars, and I don't have the original car numbers of any of them. Yet I don't see them on that disposition list, either, which poses even more questions.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3614163

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