Wagner, Hol (RBI-US RCD) wrote:
>
> Rupert:
>
> Took some time over the weekend to check out my photos of these cars,
> and following is the result (post it if you wish):
>
> Looking at photos, many taken between 1970-82, well after the BN
> merger, these are an extremely varied group of _old_ tank cars
> (including several tank car tanks mounted on flats, e.g., 205430,
> 205463, 205646), all used in company water service and painted either
> Omaha orange or black. The 205284, for example, had once been an
> Alliance Division auxiliary water car, used behind steam locomotives
> in an earlier era. None appear to have received BN paint, though at
> least one (205399) was repainted BN mineral brown by November 1974 –
> except around the CB&Q reporting marks and number and the water
> service stencil, which remained black on orange. In May 1982 the
> 205284 (the old Alliance Division water car) was still black but with
> recently stenciled white CB&Q reporting marks and number in BN’s
> Helvetica font.
>
> Incidentally, the next series up, beginning with CB&Q 205500, was used
> for former steam locomotive tenders in company water service.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Hol
>
> Rupert & Maureen wrote:
>
> > The list of BN equipment (courtesy of Friends of BN) shows the new
> numbers allocated to CB&Q equipment in 1970. This includes a group of
> Q tank cars numbered 205270-205499 which kept the same numbers under
> BN. Any ideas what these might have been?
>
> >
>
> > Some of the numbers in this group had been used in earlier years for
> tank cars of various classes that retained their heating coils when
> the rest of the class had theirs removed (about 1938) and were
> numbered separately from the others. For example 205272-3 were ex
> 150110 and 150120 (class TM-2A), 205274 was ex 150578 (class TM-4A)
> and 205290 was ex 151075 (class TM-5), but all these had been taken
> off the roster by 1966 (and probably by 1950).
>
> >
>
> > On that basis, I suspect that the mystery cars were in a similar
> situation, being renumbered away from the rest of the class.
>
> >
>
> > Can anyone offer any suggestions or identify any other cars that
> received numbers in this group? Does anyone have access to BN diagram
> books that might help?
>
> >
>
> > Thanks
>
> >
>
> > Rupert Gamlen
>
> > Auckland NZ
>
> >
>
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