Bill,

I have a copy of that photo of NC&StL #19210 that you attached, and noticed that the end is not the original type as-delivered.  See attached builder’s photo of #19399.  Perhaps the newer end is from a rebuild after a wreck. 

Steve Johnson

When using PowerPoint with intentions of showing your program on another computer, ie via a thumb drive, make sure you save the file as a “Package Presentation for CD” file, which is different than the standard save in PowerPoint. Go to file, then save & send, choose presentation package for CD, then choose package for CD, then choose save to folder. This last click will allow you to choose your thumb drive. Your file size will be larger, but it will include all fonts, videos and other special features you worked so hard to create. And it will all be on your thumb drive, not on that computer back at home or the office.

A standard PowerPoint file assumes the fonts chosen, videos, and other special features reside on the computer in the exact location as on the computer used during creation. If using a different computer during presentation you will not see your special features.

Also be aware that older version of PowerPoint do not recognize some common video formats, esp Microsoft formats. If you plan to include a video clip in your presentation, you may have to convert it. And be sure to try it on another computer to make sure it will work.

These are some tricks I have learned doing weekly presentations in two different churches each week.

Create on your new iPad, and save to a thumb drive. Someone will have a real computer at the event…. 8^)

We all have our methods and reasons Bill and Tony but unfortunately I suffer from a Chronic Condition known as the "What Ifs" . . .

—What If my computer will not boot up?
—What If I can not find a computer to use with a compatible version of "Keynote"
—What If. . . on and on

Also when Keynote is converted to PowerPoint it does not read all of the formatting and at least in my case the presentation looks like S@#$%^&*T.

As to the points Bill raises, I have never noticed losing any of those things when I convert from Keynote to the Hi-Res PDF. IF they are n the original, they are on the PDF.

So I plan to continue to do what works for me.

Bill Welch

To amplify Doug and Nelson’s comments on CB&Q Waycars…..

Without researching the issue, the application of Allied Full Cushion Trucks to CB&Q waycars was very limited (to two cars… One wood and one welded steel IRRC).

Side door cars were not unusual in any period on the CB&Q and were applied as needed and not as a class of cars.  The three classes of steel cars had conventional ride control freight car trucks.

Side door cars are different than blind cars without end platforms (sometimes called “Mulelies” on other roads).   The Class NE-5 was used both during WWI and WWII for waycars converted from boxcars as a temporary measure.   The WWI cars did get cupolas and many received end platforms, while the WWII side door cars were more like MOW cars and had the one window on each side with a small all-weatherish extension as a sort of bay window but had blind ends not intended for boarding.

I’ve not seen mention of legal authority to use the temporary cars for the CB&Q because I have not done such research but have run across Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission permissions to use non-standard waycars for other roads for specified time periods around 1900.

No doubt the banning of “bouncers” or four-wheel bobbers were motivated by pressure from the Brotherhoods.   The Q built a number of such cars after the turn of the century and they lasted to the 1930s…in what service I am not sure where or why.  There was an earlier class of such cars and in pre-1880 times more bobbers, side door cars, and very short eight wheel cars that show up in a stereopticon photo of the Aurora Shops that is the only record of waycars that look very different from the CB&Q “standard” 28’ and 30’ cars that we know.

The No.7 truck WAS a passenger car truck as it was used under a number of different classes of mail, baggage, cream, RPO, business, and coach cars as well as being the standard waycar truck.   It was almost a clone of the longer No. 2 truck which was a passenger car truck.   The C&NW and UP must have liked the Q design as they also used a clone; even the UP calling it the Q truck.   But many 1880 cabooses were equipped with such trucks on many roads east to west.   Wood Q waycars of 1870 design with No. 7 trucks lasted through the BN merger.   And yes, they were smooth riding at speed.

The CB&Q had only one “transfer” waycar built from a single sheathed boxcar primarily for service at the Western Avenue Yards in Chicago, probably because of the same pressures mentioned for other roads.

Charlie Vlk 

By the way, the CP and CN steel 8-hatch reefers were designed, built and used in general service for transporting over great distances any perishable commodities that required temperature protection in winter or summer.   CP and CN did not think it was economically justified for each railway to build and maintain individual fleets of reefers dedicated to particular service such as produce, fruit, dairy, fish, meat, etc.  A single design was developed for general service. The reefers were fitted with permanent underslung heaters, overhead ice tanks and internal meat hooks when the car was required to transport meat.

John Riddell

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