Ken
Gondola
71052 was a GA-7 from the group 70200-71199, built in 1911 by AC&F with 12
drop bottom doors. They had an inside length of 40?, an inside
width of 9? 6? and inside height of 4? 4?. The May 1936 ORER shows
17 left, but they were all gone by the following year.
Enlarging the
photo on the Denver Library site, the number on the left hand car appears to
be 173131 which would make it a GA-8 from the group 172200-173199, built by
Pressed Steel in 1912, also with 12 drop bottom doors. These cars also
had an inside length of 40? but the inside height was 4? 7?. Nine were shown
in May 1936, but none 12 months later.
Rupert
Gamlen
Auckland NZ
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Kenneth Middleton
Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 2:04
a.m.
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
[CBQ] Gondola 71052
On page 44 of the recent book
entitled The
Burlington Waycar by Randall Danniel, Marian Reis and
Joe Douda thee is an Otto Perry photo of a train repairing a washout. In
the photo are two gondolas. The right one appears to me to be numbered 71052
(though 71652 is a possibility). I can't read the number of the left hand car.
The photo was taken on August 29, 1933. Can anyone tell me anything about the
history of these cars? Were they later renumbered? How long did they
last?
Thanks in advance for any help
you can provide.