This early 1900s photo from the collection of the Autry Museum of the American West shows a palm tree loaded on two O&C flat cars:

http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M29413;type=102

Click on the photo and then zoom in to enlarge it.

Anyone recall what railroad used the O&C reporting mark? And by the way, if the flat cars were models one could speculate that the car numbers were rearranged decals.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA