Listers,
Today I created a file and a photo album on these interesting cars.
The file contains the transcripts of two posts on this site--from
Tom Mack and Ed DeRuoin created back on August 20-21 of last year.
These two posts contain great information to help understand these
cars.
The photo file contains a blank PRR (Penn Central) Form C.T. 220,
the passenger conductor's "wheel report" for his train. This is
posted to help you decipher the information contained on the next
entry--the consist of St. Louis to New York M&E Train 10 as it
departed Indianapolis on November 26, 1968.
The cars are listed in order from the engine. As with all PRR (PC)
M&E trains, there is a rider--in this case, a Class NE express cabin
already renumbered for Penn Central.
The train consists of 19 Flexi-Vans, 16 of which are NYC (Merchant's
Despatch, MFVX) or NYC reporting marks. The MFVX cars are all
passenger-equipped with 36" steel wheels, Type AB-1B high speed
brakes and steam and signal lines.
The New York Central car is a freight-service car--not equipped with
passenger goodies.
The three CB&Q cars (nearly 1/8 of the entire fleet) are, likewise,
freight-service cars, not being equipped with high-speed brakes, etc.
Notice that the vans on the three Burlington cars are not their own,
but NYC vans. My guess is that the Burlington flats and their vans
soon parted company and a Burlington van on a home flat would be
more of a coincidence than a normal occurrence.
The train is being pulled (if these engines haven't been renumbered
into PC numbers yet) by three fairly-new GP-35s. This would be
consistent with the freight-train speed restrictions placed on Train
10 by the presence of the four (3 CB&Q and 1 NYC) freight-equipped
Flexi-Vans flats.
The destination of many of the cars in this consist is a mystery to
me. I'm assuming the "Kearney" mentioned is in Nebraska but, if so,
why are the cars headed east out of Indianapolis?
Kearney here is not New Jersey because I have the consist of this
same train out of Harrisburg and the Kearney cars are gone. The big
Flexi-Van terminal in the east was N. Bergen, NJ--not Kearney.
Notice that one of the CB&Q flats (CB&Q 96006) is waybilled for
Pittsburgh and that all are carrying "MS" or storage mail. The DSD
4417 van is also a mystery.
Best regards,
Dave Lambert
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