Re: LNE Rolling Stock
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rwitt_2000
I found this example about a year ago:
The drawing is for a SAL class A-1 automobile box cars SAL 9011-9035 (1936) and SAL 9036-9060 (1937). I am intrigued by the note that these box cars were built from former gondola series 96000 built in 1926. The gondolas were in-service for about a decade and then some were used to build these box cars. Was this done under some Depression Program similar to what the B&O used to built their M-15 wagon-top box cars using M-15 fishbelly underframes? When that program ended the B&O built its wagon-tops as totally new cars (Class M-53). I found photos of a A-1, but not of the original gondola. Pictures of SAL 9028
Can others supply additional information about these box cars? It seems to be a good candidate for a resin kit especially since one of them has been preserved in a museum. And this reply ... Bob, SAL's 96099 is shown in figure 234 on page 223
of the 1931 CAR BUILDER'S CYCLOPEDIA. You will also find it in
Gregg's TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA No. 46. The car in question was
class G7, a 41' 6" flat-bottom composite gondola with nine side
stakes, a ribbed end with four wales, but no darts, and a
slightly protruding end sill, same as the auto car conversion. Yours Aye,
There maybe many other such conversions. Bob Witt |
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