-----Original Message-----
From: Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee@...>
To: STMFC <STMFC@...>
Sent: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 6:50 pm
Subject: RE: [STMFC] Cars Made OK on the C&S




Rich, did the information include the car numbers?

Schuyler

From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of
richtownsend@...
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00 PM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: [STMFC] Cars Made OK on the C&S

Recently I was at the Colorado Railroad Museum and ran across a series of
ledgers from the mid to late 1950's titled "Cars Made OK For Sugar,
Feldspar, Plaster, Etc., On Repair Track." These were from the Colorado &
Southern Ry. I copied several pages including and surrounding the period of
interest to me (late 1958). I assume (but don't know for sure) that these
cars were "made OK" by ensuring that they didn't leak (i.e., were
watertight) and didn't have anything on the interior that would tear the
bags used for transporting, for example, sugar. I have transcribed the
copies and will post them to the files. On the pages I copied there are 312
cars listed. They came from 56 different railroads as shown below. I was
surprised to see how many were from D&H (5), IC (9), L&N (7), N&W (7), and
SOU (16). I offer this up just as something interesting, and not to get into
a Gilbert-Nelson discussion.

AA
1

ACL
2

ACY
1

ATSF
14

B&M
2

C&O
3

C&S
63

CB&Q
24

CG
2

CNW
12

CP
1

CRI&P
4

D&H
5

D&M
1

D&RGW
2

DL&W
2

DSS&A
1

Erie
3

FW&D
5

GM&O
2

GN
6

GTW
1

IC
9

KCS
3

L&A
1

L&N
7

LV
1

M&StL
1

MEC
1

MILW
10

MKT
2

MNS
1

MON
1

MP
5

N&W
7

NKP
1

NP
12

NS
1

NYC
9

P&LE
4

PRR
8

RDG
1

SAL
3

SLSF
10

SOO
1

SOU
16

SP
16

SP&S
3

SSW
1

T&NO
4

TP
1

UP
9

WAB
2

WM
2

WofA
1

WP
1

Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

=======
Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found.
(Email Guard: 7.0.0.21, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.19120)
http://www.pctools.com <http://www.pctools.com/?cclick=EmailFooterClean_51>
=======

=======
Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found.
(Email Guard: 7.0.0.21, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.19120)
http://www.pctools.com/
=======

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]