According to Equip. Reg. 1/53(reprinted by NMRA) your
NYC 104185 was a XM, 40' Box, 110,000 CZPY, 2955
Cu.Ft. w/side door 6-0 x 7-11. Number group
102500-106999, 3816 cars in group. Just a plain steel
boxcar.
--- Dave Lotz <Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Tonight, while I was digging through a file of
> important papers that my Dad
> kept, I found one of the small, brown CB&Q envelopes
> (Form 5010) addressed
> to Dad. I opened it and pulled out the contents to
> find a June 8, 1953
> Western Union telegram from Liberty Homes of Bay
> City, Michigan, notifying
> my dad that the pre-cut house he and mother had
> purchased would be ready to
> load for shipment to Burlington on July 13th, 1953
> and asked that he wire
> further instructions. His reply telegram from that
> same day was there,
> along with the prepaid CB&Q Freight Bills (Form
> 9-8), a CB&Q postcard (Form
> 70) notifying Dad that the ?freight? was ready for
> delivery on July 17
> aboard NYC car #104185. There was also a Form 743,
> Constructive Placement
> Notice notifying Dad that the car could not be
> delivered on account of the
> inability to receive the car. I knew that my folks
> had bought and assembled
> the house I grew up in, but did not know until
> tonight, that it was
> delivered via the ?Q!? Just out of curiosity, I
> tried to look up the NYC
> car in my Morning Sun NYC equipment book to no
> avail. Does anyone on the
> list have any idea what this car was? I?m assuming
> it was a box car of some
> sort?
>
> Dave Lotz
> Pooler, GA
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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