Nostalgia & History > CB&Q Business Car 100 in 1963

1. CB&Q 100 on inbound Galesburg Local Tr. #2 at Leland, IL, July 9, 1963, 11 minutes late at 9:37 a.m. Jerry Laboda told me, "Built by Pullman as El Paso & Southwestern #1914, built in 1913 as a business car. The car was sold to the CB&Q in January 1925, numbered 100. The car was transferred (sold or leased?) to the Western Pacific in May 1929, keeping its number. In September 1931 it went back to the CB&Q, still as car 100. It was an interesting car... don't know if it is still around or not. Bill Glick's roster book shows that it was sold in 1970 to become a house in Riley, Wisc."

2. I found this on the Internet  it is of the car in Wisconsin in 2010, photographer unklnown.

Note: the Galesburg local ran from Galesburg, IL to Chicago in the morning and returned in the afternoon.  I have no idea why Car 100 was hitching a ride that morning.

Note: the fake fluting on the sides below the belt rail.

 

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Isn't that what they called Shaddow Painting or Striping. The CRI&P used it also.
Steve

wpjones Wrote:
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> Isn't that what they called Shaddow Painting or
> Striping. The CRI&P used it also.
> Steve

Steve, I think the best example was on the Silverliners of the North Shore as shown in this photo taken in Milwaukee just before the end on January 3, 1963.

Marty

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Santa Fe also used it....

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

I have seen that paint treatment called "simulated stainless steel"