Hello Mr. Buchwald,

The PS-1 box car in your photo is a 40 foot car from UP series
100000-101599, PS lot 5908, 1600 cars built in 1948 without the rectangles
at the peak next to the hand wheel common to 1950 PS-1s. These cars have 6
foot door openings with 7 panel Superior doors, and riveted sides.
UP had another lot (8399A) of 40 foot PS-1s built in 1957, welded

series 126000-126524, 525 cars, 8 foot door opening with Pullman and
Youngstown doors.
They also had 50 foot PS-1s but with overhanging roofs and different
paint schemes.

Hope this helps a bit.

Sam Clarke
Kadee Quality Products

----- Original Message -----
From: "buchwaldfam" <duff@gmavt.net>
To: <STMFC@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: [STMFC] Riveted PS-1 box cars

I've received some good info in the past from this group about the
riveted PS-1s that the IC built in their own shops. Also have tried
to gather more info about other roads which owned this variation of
a normally welded car. I haven't seen any printed reference to the
Union Pacific having any of these. However I ran across this photo
which appears to be a riveted PS-1 in UP colors. The resolution is
not good enough to get the number off the end.

http://donross.railspot.com/dr0700/msce2.jpg

Is this a 40' or a 50' car? What is the number series, build
date, etc.
The rivet patterns are interesting in that they are similar to
the construction of, say, an X29, with a double row of rivets at
each panel joint. Some of the CNW cars were also like this.

Interesting....

Regards,
Phil Buchwald





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