| RBBQ 77016 at Cicero, Illinois on October 15, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from Bulletin #12 of the Burlington Route Historical Society: "In January 1966 Havelock (the CB&Q's shops in Havelock, Nebraska) produced 100 RBL's for the Q, RBBQ 77000-77099. These 50 footers were quite similar to RBBQ79800-79899 built a year earlier, the main external difference being the use of a more modern Camel plug door, centered on the carbody this time. Inside, the first 50 cars had Evans two piece load dividers and 2-D side fillers." The entire 77000 to 77249 number series is listed in the October 1971 edition of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) as AAR Car Type Code R206, AAR Mechanical Designation RBL. It is wearing the pre-merger paint scheme, the original plan was to paint in the word NORTHERN below the word BURLINGTON, but the font was changed to a thinner style after the meger, so the plan was never implemented. |