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Author:  big-bad-2666 [ Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Traverse City, MI questions
Attached is a picture I bought at a flea market. Its a common car, but a different road name; the Baltimore & Ohio & Chesapeake & Ohio. This was taken in Traverse City, MI in June of 1983. Does anyone know as to why this car was painted like that? And what happened to the car?

Speaking of Traverse City...does anyone know what happened to the ex. C&O engine shed and pit in the Boardman Yard? It was there in 2002, is it still there? I will attach a 2002 picture of that also.

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C&O-TraverseCityMIBoardmanYardOfficeAndEngineHouse080776[CharlesGeletzkeJr].jpg
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C&OEngineHouseTraverseCity2002-01[TimShanahan].jpg
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TC railcar.jpg
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Author:  Ray Reter [ Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Traverse City, MI questions
I remember seeing passenger cars with "twin logos" of the B&O "capitol dome" logo and the "C&O for progress" logo after the C&O took control of the B&O, but do not remember the two names written out on the letterboard. Interesting!
Author:  ctjacks [ Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Traverse City, MI questions
If the picture of the car is from 1983, it is probably the car that is next to the SRI museum today in Owosso. Can you make out the car number?
Author:  big-bad-2666 [ Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Traverse City, MI questions
ctjacks wrote:
If the picture of the car is from 1983, it is probably the car that is next to the SRI museum today in Owosso. Can you make out the car number?

The one at SRI didnt even come to mind. I contact my buddy who owns the one at SRI. Turns out this is the same car...according to him. The number looks to be "TC7-15" could that be right?
Author:  fmilhaupt [ Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Traverse City, MI questions
Yes, that is the car at SRI.

The combined road names in the letterboard are in no way authentic. Passenger cars in service never wore both road names. In the last years of service, in fact, many cars, both C&O and B&O, just had a yellow band in the letterboard.

Now, there was one mispainted E8 that had C&O initials on the side and a B&O capitol dome on the nose.
Author:  davew833 [ Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Traverse City, MI questions
It certainly would have defied all rules of standard railroad passenger car lettering practice during pre-Amtrak times to mix a serif and a sans-serif font like that so close together-- or even on the same car for that matter. Now BNSF might do it on their business cars today...
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