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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: End Door Boxcar With Bus (1946)

Gatwood, Elden J SAD
 

Tim, you made my day!

 

Elden Gatwood

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tim O'Connor
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:59 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: End Door Boxcar With Bus (1946)

 


Or... think of a ship in a bottle. Maybe the bus was assembled inside the car and the windshield
was the last thing to be applied. ;-)



On 6/1/2021 12:52 PM, Gatwood, Elden J SAD wrote:

Some of these busses were so wide it was impossible to exit the bus when inserted, so it may have been pushed in and pulled out.

 

Note the mirrors are also removed.

 

Elden Gatwood

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tim O'Connor
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:39 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: End Door Boxcar With Bus (1946)

 


And there is a chain hanging from the undercarriage... The bus was pulled from the car.


On 6/1/2021 10:55 AM, Chris Barkan wrote:

Here is another angle of the same operation

https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/unloading-vancouver-island-coach-lines-brill-bus-from-freight-car-victoria-2
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Chris Barkan
Champaign, IL


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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

 


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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

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