Further to my earlier post regarding the PGE’s 40' wood refrigerator cars, I have come across an old notebook with some information I extracted more than 45 years ago from a Pacific Great Eastern Railway Equipment Record held at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and realized that my statement that numbers 807 - 809 were never used was not correct. It is true that 807 was never assigned but the 20 NRC cars were originally placed in the 808 - 827 series. The document in the Archives indicated that all were purchased second-hand “circa 1948" - thanks to Roger, I now know “sometime in 1946" - for $544.35 (+/- $0.01) each and all were listed as built in 1924 (even though all the cars that received the aluminum paint scheme were stencilled “BUILT 11/22"). Their interesting story up to the arrival of the all-steel refrigerators in series 820 - 824 in October 1954 follows:
808 Rebuilt 4/9/53 Re#’d 816 (2nd), value $3793.08
809 Written off 1952
810 Rebuilt 1952, value $3793.10,
811 (1st) Written off 1952; 811 (2nd) Rebuilt aft 8/15/52* from 825, value $3793.08
812 Rebuilt 1952, value $$3793.08
813 (1st) Written off 1952; 813 (2nd) Rebuilt aft 8/15/52* from 820, value $3793.08
814 Rebuilt 2/7/54, value $3793.08
815 (1st) Written off 1952; 815 (2nd) Rebuilt 4/8/53 from 823, value $3793.08
816 (1st) Written off 1951; 816 (2nd) Rebuilt 4/9/53 from 808, value $3793.08
817 1955 value $544.34
818 (1st) Written off 1952; 818 (2nd) Re#’d from 827, 5/14/53, value $544.34
819 1955 value 544.34
820 See 813 (2nd)*
821 Written off 1954 (Still in “patched-out” P.G.E.Ry livery 7/15/53)
822 Written off 1952
823 See 815 (2nd)
824 Written off 1951
825 See 811 (2nd)*
826 Written off 1951
827 See 818 (2nd) * both in FCR in a Stan Styles photo of this date
and were rebuilt, repainted and weighed by 12/52
Regards,
Greg Kennelly
