Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"

["JIMBEAR" <ribear_@_cox.net>]

I agree with you, Seth. It's a highly unlikely story. It was probably an
ordinary freight elevator for receiving baggage and mail. Even assuming
that he arrived at the platform by rail, why not just roll his wheelchair
into the elevator and take him up to the garage level to enter his limo?

Jim.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Bramson" <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "David S. Rose" <lists_@_rosegremse.com>
>  >>>How?  I never saw pictures of any kind of box car looking rail
> conveyance carrying his car.  Did they set up the car carrying FDR's
> automobile into a bumper type arrangement, where the auto drove through
> the opened end of the box car directly onto a platform?  It doesn't seem
> to me they could have manuevered it out of the boxcar if it (the boxcar)
> was parked next to a concrete platform.  Something about this part of it
> just doesn't sound right.  Comments?


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