Charlie
Thanks for the responses.
Page 9 - I agree there may be another number after the "93", which changes
the date of the photo (if the ORER's are correct). Judging from the 1885
ORER comments, a new numbering system for passenger equipment was adopted in
1884 and the mail car series was changed to 900-919, with four cars (50, 52,
73 and 74) still to be renumbered as at June 1885. By 1888 (after the date
recorded for the photo), the number system had only been extended to
900-922. Bill Glick's Passenger Car Roster shows that 914-920 (except 917)
were renumbered to 930-935, but this change didn't appear in the ORER's
until 1889 or 1890. This would suggest that the photo should be dated after
1888.
Page 49 - this photo also appears (in full) in the Holbrook/Lorenz Waycars
book page 98, but no sign writing is visible. Your comment about the
individual metal letters is interesting - I shall be forced to peer ever
more intently at early coaches.
Rupert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Unusual cars
> Rupert-
> Sharp eyes!!!
> I agree re: page 9. There might be another number after the 93... don't
> know
> if that helps.
> The picture on page 10 is of a baggage car....perhaps not even a Q car as
> I don't think
> they went in for the drooping ends over the platform very much. Windows
> in baggage
> cars were quite common and the earlier RPOs (White Mail, etc.) established
> the pattern
> of narrow doors for the mail section almost from the start of RPO service.
> I think the reason "Nebraska" on the CW on page 40 is so clear is that the
> letters for the roadname on the
> letterboard are likely light-colored individual metal letters....like the
> commuter coaches
> were during the same time period. It looks like the Adams - Express
> Company - Baggage
> lettering was a dark color (or maybe gold reflecting dark) on a dark
> painted or varnished car.
> Charlie Vlk
>
>
>
> I've been indexing the content of Bulletin 44 (should be on the web site
> later this week) which causes me to study the photos in greater detail
> than I might otherwise do, and some of them contain some interesting
> points.
>
> Page 9 upper photo, there is some fancy writing (rather than the usual
> block capitals) on the end of the RPO that appears to
> be "U.S. Rail Way Post" or similar, together with the car number. This
> appears to be "93" although I can't find any mail, mail-baggage, etc. cars
> with that number in 1886.
>
> On page 10 (upper photo), the first car behind the tender - was this an
> early RPO?
>
> The lower photo on page 49 includes coach-baggage-waycar #86. It is
> interesting that the Adams Express Company writing on the side of the car
> is hardly readable whilst the word "Nebraska" above it is comparatively
> clear.
>
> Rupert Gamlen
> Auckland NZ
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