The Chicago Burlington and Quincy built a total of 60 "economy" baggage cars in its Havelock shops between October 1950 and September 1953. Twenty cars #990-1009 were assigned to Zephyr service and wore Aluminum paint. Some of these cars also had shadow-lining applied for time in an effort to better blend them with the fluted stainless steel cars. The other 40 cars #1015-1054 were painted Burlington dark green and assigned to the general passenger pool.
This baggage car was part of a two-car Santa Fe set from MTH. The boxes are long-gone, so I don't know the set number. The other car is a streamlined RPO, and these cars ran on a Santa Fe Fast Mail train I collected. That entire collection will be for sale at our March 9-10 Train-A-Palooza, but I could not part with this car. The detail is as good or better than anything you can buy. 990 does not fit my FW&D projects, but as I said, I just could not let it go.
One of these Havelock cars has been preserved at the IRM.
