Not to mention that the roofs look beat up. If new, the roofs would all look the same. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> Reply-To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 11:24 PM To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Q ditcher John Yes I agree. Seeing three and a half of the six ditchers in the one photo suggested that all six might be present (or why else would they have at least four together). The flat cars with consecutive numbers had rails along them in a similar manner to the advert photos suggesting that they were the ones allocated to each of the ditchers and, with so many together, I thought the photo might have been taken at the time the Burlington bought them. My copy of the photo came from the original LOC collection and doesn¹t have the subscription shown in the Shorpy copy, so I was unaware of the date. None of the photos used in the advert, calendar or UK website show the number of the flat car bearing 260 but presumably it was in the company service numbering series. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John D. Mitchell, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014 4:24 p.m. To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q ditcher Rupert I don't believe the photo is a delivery photo. This is for three reasons. First the picture is a WPA photograph, made during the Depression years in the 30's many years after they were delivered. Second, as delivered, they were painted white and in the picture they are black and lastly, they are on flat cars in the company service number series. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:08 PM, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> wrote: Going back through my e-mails, I see that Ken Martin should be credited with finding one of the adverts I referred to. There is a similar photo to the second advert showing the dump car in the April 2011 calendar from Mile Post 206 Publishing except that, once again, it is a much better picture than the magazine one. And the way car in the photo is apparently 14252. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ
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