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Scott Pitzer

Thanks for the link Scott--Wow!

John

John Golden
Bloomington, IN

Hey Scott, that is a great shot.
John, how bout the passenger type cut lever on the car!!! Was that typical for that series car?? I wonder what the small star signifies that's about the coupler?
I was told that this series was converted to something else many years later but, I don't remember now what they became.
Thanks for sharing.
Don Worthy
Ivey, Ga.

Don Worthy wrote:

John, how bout the passenger type cut lever on the car!!! Was that typical for that series car??

It's a two-ended cut lever, later required on passenger cars, but seen on plenty of early 20th century freight cars. I wouldn't say it's that unusual for the era.

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According to Larry Goolsby (Lines South 4/89 pp 1,4-17), ACL 32587
belonged to class O-9 (ACL 29000-33999, blt 1906-7), and "many cars
were converted to MofW camp and tool cars after removal from the
revenue roster".

Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

The "Fowler" 36' steel-frame cars built for some Canadian roads had
these as built.

Lovely photo of this ACL car.

Steve Lucas.

--- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:

Don Worthy wrote:

John, how bout the passenger type cut lever on the car!!! Was

that

typical for that series car??

It's a two-ended cut lever, later required on passenger

cars, but

seen on plenty of early 20th century freight cars. I wouldn't say

it's

that unusual for the era.

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
Publishers of books on railroad history