It's possible it was an NP sleeper transferred to CB&Q for some reason. Though I'm not sure why that would have happened. Maybe became a Burlington MoW sleeper?

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Somebody over at Flickr said its a joint CB&Q/NP car for the north coast limited.

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Language of the mad

It's Q. Because a portion of the run of the NCL was on the Q, the Q was required to own a certain percentage of the cars for the NCL pool (same with Q and GN for the Empire Builder and the Q/DRGW/WP for the California Zephyr). So it is/was Q owned, but it was painted and lettered for the North Coast Limited to fit in with the rest of the equipment to make a solid looking train.

There *was* a sleeper obs that was Q owned that was transfered over to the Q after the NP stopped running obs cars on the NCL. It was painted white and looked really weird at the end of a solid train of stainless steel.

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Modeling the CB&Q/BN Savanna, IL to La Crosse, WI
1968-1988

Ah! Duh...

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What was the context this was taken under anyways?

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Ok, that car has seen better days!

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here ya go... thought i had one! [link]

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I dunno... whada you think?