I know there is a coach from the Namekegon in Spooner. There is one or two museums that have a baggage car each or one is an RPO maybe. Just wondering if anyone had any insight.
Thanks,
Chris

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> I know there is a coach from the Namekegon
> in Spooner. There is one or two museums that
> have a baggage car each or one is an RPO
> maybe. Just wondering if anyone had any
> insight.
> Thanks,
> Chris

I found an AAR 40 foot boxcar from this road, in paint circa 1963, on an abandoned North Shore Line spur in Skokie, IL, in 1991. Unfortunateley, it was scrapped before my efforts to save it (and two prewar EJ&E steel cars) began two years later.
You win some and you lose some.

> I found an AAR 40 foot boxcar from this
> road, in paint circa 1963, on an abandoned
> North Shore Line spur in Skokie, IL, in
> 1991. Unfortunateley, it was scrapped before
> my efforts to save it (and two prewar
> EJ&E steel cars) began two years later.
> You win some and you lose some.

Olin: You told me previously about the two EJ&E boxcars but didn't mention the other car being from the "Omaha Road." If you get a chance, drop me a note off line.

Les

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Baggage coach C&NW 441 at Midland Railroad in Baldwin, Kansas. Was orig a coach and built by AC&F around 1900 or so. Figure it was probably a wood car, later steel sheathed. Does have a steel underframe.

> I found an AAR 40 foot boxcar from this
> road, in paint circa 1963, on an abandoned
> North Shore Line spur in Skokie, IL, in
> 1991. Unfortunateley, it was scrapped before
> my efforts to save it (and two prewar
> EJ&E steel cars) began two years later.
> You win some and you lose some.

I wish I would have known. That's only a couple miles from me. There are a three old cars that I assume are from the C&NW down next to the only surviving building of the C&NW carshops. One is a coach, the other a baggage (RPO maybe), and the third I can't remember but it may be freight (wood). I was thinking of writing or asking the company that owns the building and land around it where they sit if I could check them out or at least take some photos. They aren't on trucks but I always thought the old coaches that were stations or other structures in their second life looked interesting. Sometimes everything can't get restored but can serve other interpretive purposes. There are a lot of cars around town and other towns for that matter that could be saved but I wouldn't know where to approach for their home. Off tangent but oh well.

Christopher


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