Re: how to rail a Packard
Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2014/11/27 0:46:01
They needed a large car to carry a full load of personnel and equipment. These days Chevrolet Suburbans or Crew Cab trucks are often used, in the old days Packard and Chrysler sedans were popular. Sometimes they used small buses.
Many of the older pictures are of special vehicles used by top railroad executives on official business. You couldn't expect the president of a railroad to ride in a Ford.
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HH56 wrote:
Interesting a railroad would pay the cost of a Packard over a lesser car for such service. Did it just happen to have a perfect size or was there some other advantage over say a comparable GM or other mfg's similar sized & probably lower cost offering.
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