January 22, 2021
Rupert - Yes, that must be the road number. I can make out the "2" and the "5." I just found two more images in the Flickr Gallery of "stretched" 211239 that lacks a cupola. It has seven windows compared to 209365 that has five windows. Plus, it doesn't look to be as heavily constructed. I've attached the color image:
Unless Charlie says different, I'd assume 211239 was also originally constructed for use as a drovers car. It lasted long enough to be painted orange and used as a MOW camp car. Unfortunately, no other data came with the image. The Pullman tourist cars were a cut above these drovers cars - Louis
In a message dated 1/22/2021 5:42:44 PM Central Standard Time, gamlenz@hotmail.com writes:
Louis
I think this is 209365, the subject of an earlier group discussion. Charlie Vlk noted that it was 45’ long and weighed 60,000 lbs, surviving until scrapped in 1949. He also commented on the windows, doors and cupola as being similar to those on 28’ waycars, so perhaps this car was a waycar that had been stretched.
If this was a stretched waycar to provide drover accommodation, the 1949 scrapping date may relate to the acquisition of Pullman tourist cars in late 1947, some of which were converted to drover cars towards the end of 1948. Bulletin 25 has details of these cars on page 111.
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Charlie - I've attached an image from the BRHS Flickr Gallery showing an "elongated" way car in use on a wreck train in 1940 near Princeton, IL:
Could this car have been originally constructed for use as a dover's car? Somewhere else in the Flickr Gallery there's another image of a near-identical car, except it does not have a cupola.
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