Last week I posted a photo of CB&Q Mather lease stock car MSCX 822 which bore the Burlington Route herald towards the right hand end. Hol Wagner pointed
out that the reporting marks and numbers appeared to have been painted out, indicating that the photo was taken after the lease finished.
There were two groups of leased Mather cars – 50000-50139 were 40’ cars and 50200-50239 were 50’ cars. In the absence of any company specific documentation, I’ve been digging in the ORER’s to try and identify when these cars were leased.
40’ 50’
1960 February nil nil
1960 August 93 nil
1961 February 140 nil
1964 February 139 nil
1965 May 139 nil
1966 August 60 40
1967 May 60 40
1967 August nil nil
Based on the ORER’s, it appears that all but 40 of the 40’ cars were returned to NACC between May 1965 and August 1966 and, in the same period, the
50’ cars were leased. Then, between May and August 1967, all the leased cars were returned.
There is a photo of a 50’ car behind GP-7 #264 in BRHS Slide Set 4 – Stock Cars, dated April 1966, the earliest I have been able to find.
There is still a big gap between May 1965 and April 1966, and a smaller gap between February and August 1960. Does anyone have an ORER for either of those periods, or any data on the leases?
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ