| CB&Q modernized heavyweight business car #94 GENERAL JOHN A. HULEN in private ownership. Built by Pullman in December 1915 in Lot #4362 as the Plan #2521B 10 section (10S) sleeper-lounge observation NORTH GATE for the general service pool. Changed to Plan variant #2521E in October 1930 and repainted at that time from Pullman Green to MILW Maroon & Orange. Repainted back to Pullman Green in May 1934. Sold to the Burlington at the 12/31/1948 divestiture as #673 (1st), later renumbered to #640 (2nd). Withheld from lease in October 1949 and subsequently rebuilt in September 1951 to business car #94 (2nd), later to subsidiary FW&D (still as #94) on 4/28/1954, and named GENERAL JOHN A. HULEN at that time. Hulen was the first president (as of 1930) of the Burlington-Rock Island RR, a 50-50 joint-CRI&P/CB&Q (C&S)-owned company in Texas. The #94 later went back to the CB&Q in February 1967, and was sold that same month to Walter Loftin, Jr.-Rail Travel Associates in Arlington, VA. RTA planned to rename the car to VIRGINIA, but based on photographic evidence, that name was never applied. The car was later resold to LEMAC in Wildwood, FL, and later was resold again to a private owner, first in Lakeland, FL, and later in Leesburg, FL, where it was scrapped in the early 2000's. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Exact date is approximate. |