[CBQ] Boarding cars

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

Charlie

 

The 9xxxx series for MoW equipment started in 1900/1901.

Boarding cars A - J were shown in the first "ORER" in 1885, together with 6 other boarding cars - #49, 920, 4096, 9066, 4163 and 9520 - the numbers indicating that they were all converted from box cars. (In 1885, there were only four categories of company service cars shown - boarding cars, wrecking cars, pile drivers and tool cars)

In 1901-2, the A - J boarding cars were renumbered to 90100 - 90109 and, by 1908, into the 200000 series.  However, the ORER's continued to separately list 14 ex-box boarding cars and 12 "sleeping car (grain car fitted with bunks)". The "285 through 18787" you refer to were their old road numbers prior to conversion. 

I suspect that A - J cars were purpose built or rebuilt (such as the CW type one) as opposed to the addition of bunks to box / grain cars separately listed. More research required!

Rupert

----- Original Message -----

From: Charlie Vlk

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:31 AM

Subject: RE: [CBQ] Waycar oddities

The ?Boarding Car? seems to be all over the map as far as numbering and what they were. 

A 1905 ORER shows Boarding Cars in  90100-90109

..and about 39 more in scattered numbers ranging from 285 through 18787 with no pattern and no two numbers in sequence.

An earlier source (don?t recall exactly which at the moment) had Boarding Cars as numbered A-M?? noted because it sounds like the same series the Dynamometer ?Z? was in.

 I have been busy securing a piece of property and drawing up house plans so haven?t had time to begin digesting the Waycar Book.

 Charlie Vlk

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