Hol
Judging by the arch in the boxcars’ floors, they have just had their rods
tightened as well as being repainted, or is that a optical illusion?
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Black Boxcar
Theory
http://durhammuseum.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15426coll1/id/21910/rec/7
Here's another
interesting photo to study, essentially a 1920s view comparable to the famous
1940 view of O-5-A 5629 with a string of new XM-32 boxcars at Havelock.
This one depicts O-1-A 4940 with a string of freshly shopped double-sheathed
boxcars, most likely turned out by Plattsmouth (since Havelock was still
strictly a locomotive shop at this time. The photo can be dated to the
period between 1923 when 4940 was delivered and 1925-26 when the Q began
applying the full color Burlington Route herald to tenders. The Mike
doesn't have the "back porch" tender with which it was presumably
delivered, so the longer underframe has already been swapped out with
one from an O-3. The difference between the white lettering of the boxcars
and the imitation gold (don't know if it was a Dulux paint this early or not)
of the locomotive and tender is particularly evident, and the black background
of the heralds on the boxcars can also be distinguished from the mineral red of
the carbodies.
Hol