I hate bumping my own thread, but poking around the Schwinn section I came across this:
http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/bik/3973147448.html
To my untrained eye it looks to be a pretty good example, and some earlier discussions of the Continental mentioned good, sturdy, running over rabbits and riding over curbs bike. Seems appropriate for my purposes described above.
There's also a decent Super Sport at $150 today, but not in this condition.
If anyone would like to contribute some expertise, it's appreciated. The guy selling the green Raleigh is seemingly hard to reach. Grumble.
Thanks!!