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Reply to "Trains, Trolleys, and Diners: The real story"

jay jay posted:

Here is a good story about  The Bull Moose Bar & Grille,a restaurant in "Teddy Roosevelt's Railroad Car" in Sandwich, IL (DeKalb County).     https://explorationamerica.com...lJdt_5n5fzDfRYHhzB0k

John,

Those were absolutely amazing photos of the interior!  The ones I'd seen before and notes about exterior restaurant updates suggested that the car had been chopped up a bit.  It certainly doesn't look like it from those photos.  Wow.

I thought I had previously posted a photo of the right end when it had a fake front made to look like a streamliner engine.  (That was removed around 2011.)   I could 't find a post in this thread, so maybe I'm thinking of the Hicks Car Works page?  There are also pix on Pinterest.

My notes taken from that source (Hicks) said the car was built by the American Car Foundary in 1904, and was CB&Q passenger car #4438.  It was retired at Eola in 1933. 

So much for Teddy Roosevelt and for the 1893 Columbian Exhibition stories :-).

Tomlinson Run Railroad

 

 

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