Hol...Do you have photos of 14415 with the Allied
trucks?
Gordon
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Here are the promised views of 14151 with its side door.
The first, taken in Cheyenne during May 1964 at the western end of its run
from Sterling, shows the other side of the car, with not only the 13554's
Allied trucks and the side door in place but also the marker and interior
light charging receptacle with its set of louvers -- and no horizontal
Scotchlite stripe below the car number. I feel pretty certain that once
all the Q's waycars were outfitted with batteries -- or at least all those
regularly used on Lines West -- and the charging receptacles were clearly
visible on the side of the car (admittedly on only one side), the Scotchlite
stripe was dispensed with. It remained on some cars,
however, throughout the 1960s. The second photo, taken at the Q's
23rd Street coachyard in Denver, shows the 14151 in January of 1976. The
car had been moved over to the coachyard following the complete closure of the
former C&S yard, roundhouse and shop facilities at Seventh Street (Rice
Yard), where wooden waycars awaiting retirement had been stored awaiting
disposition. As Ken Martin has noted, the car still looked this way in
August 1976, and it was retired and sold in September 1976, never having
received its BN number or green paint.
Next up: photos of 13554 with and without Allied
trucks.
Hol