On Nov 21, 2008, at 6:50 PM, James D Thompson wrote:
The Santa Fe purchased 75 cars of this design from the Richmond
Car Co. in
1929.
Ralston, not Richmond.
The source I was using said Richmond, but I should have suspected that was wrong. When I went to the Santa Fe freight car folio page for these cars, I found that David is correct; the builder was Ralston. Thanks for the correction.