I was told by Trainmaster Joe Colossa last
year that the Blue Unit had 4 hand lettered wagons left on the show and none on
the Red Unit and when I saw the show this year they were still there. One of
them still has the lettering Combined Shows and the other three have Circus. All
others are done with wrap with just TGSOE in the blue dot as they have done away
with the old style globe. When these are gone you`ll probably see no more.
Attached are some pictures I took as the train arrived and the loadout here in
Columbia.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2014
From Hal Guyon #1
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Many if not most of these square
top wagons were made as shipping
containers & they aren't that old
The older wagons had round tops
& were custom built for the show
They were also much lighter
Yeah Chic, they were aluminun and had a European look to them. They were made lower so they would fit into the tunnel cars that the show used for a few years after coming off canvas. They traveled by truck except for the elephants for a couple of years, in fact the aluminum sleeper that was on CBCB for years was a RBBB unit.
Those tunnel cars were around for
quite a few years Hal & I knew
that "Silver Sleeper" very well
It wasn't aluminum just painted
It had the girls in the front
& the clowns in the back half
The 2 donikers were centered
For a few years little Margaret
Ann & her mother lived in front
There were a few stories about
it's original purpose before RB
but can't remember any of them
Kenny Dodd says that when they
drove over a coin in the road
you could tell if it was heads
or tails
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