C,B & Q #1554

ted66 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:30 pm

I believe the Illinois Railway Museum has taken home this havyweight baggage car. It is from the A,C & F in 1927 rides on six-wheel trucks

It is a long time since it was on the C,B & Q Railroad. anybody know about its

recent history?

Ted Miles, who likes head end cars

Rainier Rails · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:50 pm

No clue. Looked in several places (list of extant equipment on the BRHS website, CB&Q mail list on GroupsIO, the passenger car dept. blog at IRM, even a general Google search), with zilch results.

Glick's excellent CB&Q roster book shows that it went to MofW service on 03/08/67 at Omaha as #240045. Will take some time to manually check the BN MofW roster sheets to find if it made it that far, and if so when it was sold off.

patentable · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:17 pm

This may explain its arrival at IRM.

https://railfan.com/struggling-nebraska ... entennial/

I presume that the article using the MOW number and IRM is using the CB&Q number? I think this has been discussed on rypn. Bob

Rainier Rails · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:47 am

And that fills in the rest, should've realized that the CB&Q MofW #240045 listed by Glick had an error, was actually #250045. To BN #976184 in August 1980, but no retirement date is listed in the BN MofW sheets.

The above article also mentions 2 Pullmans that had been part of the FEVR collection, now also sold off by NRM. Will need to cross-post that to the Pullman thread here.