Re: CNW, NKP war emergency boxcar questions
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Jim,
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I am away on vacation; it is possible the renumbering of the NKP cars you inquired about happened, at least on paper, at the time NKP was merged into N&W. N&W added "2" to most NKP equipment and "3" to most Wabash, as I recall. I'll look through my research material when I get home. Jim Brewer Glenwood MD (temporarily in Ft. Myers Beach, FL)
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From: "James Mischke" <jmischke@...> To: "Steam Era Freight Car Group" <STMFC@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:07:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [STMFC] CNW, NKP war emergency boxcar questions The Intermountain web site show them coming out with WWII war emergency single sheath boxcars, as ready-to-run, for September 2009 release, in NKP, C&NW, ATSF road names. Nickel Plate questions: Web artwork shows NKP 8026. Original series 8000-8199. I understand cars in this series were renumbered into a 20800 series at some point. When?? Were they ever steel sheathed or were they woodies to the end? I model 1964. Any left then? ORER 1/64 notes mention Evans auto loading equipment, 20800 series might be a different car by then. C&NW questions: Web artwork shows C&NW 77542. Did these prototypes all have Viking roofs? ORER shows plenty left in 1/64. ORER notes suggest some/many/most/all remaining cars had been daylighted into hoppers for coke service. How many and when? Please clarify. Growing up in Ames, Iowa, I remember seeing these war emergency boxcars as a kid in the late 1960's - early 1970's. All I saw were steel sheathed with Clinton reweigh dates. (An aside, I thought "CLN" meant "cleaned" back then) When was the metal sheathing done? Any woodies left by 1964? Any insights on these familiar and interesting boxcars would be appreciated. My motivation: I would like one or two but they need to be original configuration during or close to my era (1964-65).
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