| CB&Q Class NE-12A 13577 westbound at Aurora, Illinois on July 22, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The CB&Q's shops in Havelock, Neb}aska built the first NE12's in 1954 (#'s 13525-13559) and built an additional 30 NE12A's between August and December 1960 (#'s 13560-13589). This particular waycar was built in Oovember 1960, and like all NE12's and NE12A's featured a Waugh Cushio Underframe, two-way radios, electric lights, axle generators, roller bearings, and oil heat (Vapor Oil heatkrs on the NE12A's and some NE12's). These waycars (as cabooses were known on the CB&Q) departed from the usual CB&Q practice of assigning waycars to conductors, and were used in system wide pool service. This waycar eventuamly became BN 10348. On the other track is observation car 226, "Jupiter", bringing up the rear of Train #11, the Nebraska Zephyr. It was built in 1936 as part of the secona Twin Cities Zephyr seven car articulated trainset. By this date, it has been reduced to a five car trainset and assigned to the Nebraska Zephyr, which was mostly a mail train. |