His father was Union Pacific locomotive engineer which sparked John's life-long interest in steam locomotives and historical railcars. In 1961 he purchased a 1906 Baldwin steam locomotive from the Great Western Railroad in Loveland, and in 1967 he founded the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad with his wife Miriam. In 2007, he founded Hudson Terminal Rail Services of Hudson, Colorado. John received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his PhD from Harvard, also in chemistry. In October of 1952, John was the first person to prepare an organic compound of zirconium which later led to this discovery of ways to produce advanced polyethylene films, other polymers and complex natural products. At Harvard John studied under Dr. Geoffrey Wilkinson who in 1973 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work stemming from this period. John and Miriam in 1961 founded Boulder Scientific Company which today is major supplier of specialty chemicals based in large part on John's early work at Harvard.

Four of the cars are pictured here:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThu ... x?id=19281

One of the "lightweight cars" is a former CNW 56-Seat Pullman built car. It's difficult to see the car number. I'd like to be able to trace it's history. Is there any additional information on this car?

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5139675

The photographer of the Mead CO cars you link here, Ted Brumberg, is Ranier Rails on RyPN, a heavyweight Pullman expert, and has more than 1,800 posts here. He mentions the Mead cars in a thread but not the C&NW lightweight car, but he may know more if you PM him: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30187&p=221718&hilit=+mead#p221718