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Title: Vehicle Identification
Post by: George Lortz on June 27, 2015, 10:44:23 am

This is John Barriger photo #301 taken in Monon, IN looking north on the line to Michigan City.  What is the vehicle on the siding to the right of #84B?

George L.

Title: Re: Vehicle Identification
Post by: Robert Gibson on June 27, 2015, 12:24:26 pm

Looks like a Monon school bus conversion.  I've seen a picture of it somewhere.

Title: Re: Vehicle Identification
Post by: Tom Kepshire on June 27, 2015, 12:48:00 pm

I believe it is this bus. This images are on the Cookie Collection, Vol 5

Title: Re: Vehicle Identification
Post by: Steve Dolzall on June 27, 2015, 02:19:29 pm

The bus is an International of 1941/1949 vintage most likely a model K-5-SB.  There are a couple photos in the Barriger set on the net that show the bus on the track in the distance.

Steve

Title: Re: Vehicle Identification
Post by: Steve Dolzall on June 27, 2015, 04:26:58 pm

It is the international bus.

Steve

Title: Re: Vehicle Identification
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on June 28, 2015, 09:54:28 pm

Also in this view is the original Monon scale house, just by the man on the ground, which is not seen very often.  It was replaced in the early '50s by a new one in the west yards.  Cookie told the story of the yard switcher pulling a cut of loaded cars from the crusher to this scale and then kicking the cars across the diamond into the south yard.

Regards,

Mike Aufderheide