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NYC Freight Car Lettering
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Shawn Beckert
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Received a number of NYC freight car prints from Rich Burg last night. Going through them, I notice that a number of cars have a triangle painted in the lower left corner with a bunch of numbers or letters inside. Is this an NYC shop symbol, or something else? Shawn Beckert |
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Bill Schneider <branch@...>
They're either a paint or shop mark, but they're on nearly every post war NYC boxcar that I have a picture of. On a 50' double door shot I have the lettering reads:
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X 24-B 25-G-1 ER - 2- 56 Other than the last line (East Rochester and the date) I have no idea what the other stuff means.... Bill Schneider ----- Original Message -----
From: Beckert, Shawn To: STMFC@... Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: [STMFC] NYC Freight Car Lettering List, Received a number of NYC freight car prints from Rich Burg last night. Going through them, I notice that a number of cars have a triangle painted in the lower left corner with a bunch of numbers or letters inside. Is this an NYC shop symbol, or something else? Shawn Beckert To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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Richard Hendrickson
List,It's a repainting symbol, Shawn. Upper characters are some sort of code for the number of coats and type of paint, the bottom line is the station symbol and date (e.g."BG-6-55"). It seems to have been adopted ca. 1950; cars repainted before that date don't have it. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 |
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