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- From: rambler@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Dan Meyer)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: CGW (was the Tunnel thread)
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:25:00 GMT
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- zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN) writes:
- >
- > If you look at the numbers and owners initials on rail cars, you can
- >still spot a number of CGW and even a few M&StL cars. As these
- >railroads were absorbed into C&NW, there were some numbering conflicts.
- >So insted of going through the pain of renumbering all of the
- >conflicting cars, as they were repainted, they got the C&NW logo, but
- >kept their old number and former rail road's initials.
- >
- >
- >
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-
- It was my understanding that the CGW & M&StL and other reporting marks
- existed was beacause the railroads still existed as a paper railroad
- or something.
-
- Any thoughts?
-
- -- Dan Meyer
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