Below is an inquiry I received. I’m hoping these cars, or something like
them ; )) were built during the era of this list. Can anyone help
Jason Klocke out on this?
I have a Red Caboose 40ft DD Automobile boxcar. It's a NYC car,
jade green with a cigar band herald. The # is 59075.
I am trying to bill it but I cannot find the series in the 1965
ORER.
Do you know anyone who might know about these cars? Possibly
they were renumbered from another series? I can't believe Red
Caboose would make such an error
.....the car has a repaint date of 1963 on it, yet the series does not show
in the OR ER of 1965.
Clark Propst forwarded from Jason Klocke: "I have a Red Caboose 40ft DD Automobile boxcar. It's a NYC car, jade green with a cigar band herald. The # is 59075.
I am trying to bill it but I cannot find the series in the 1965 ORER.
Do you know anyone who might know about these cars? Possibly they were renumbered from another series? I can't believe Red Caboose would make such an error.....the car has a repaint date of 1963 on it, yet the series does not show in the ORER of 1965."
I've got a bridge to sell to Jason if he "can't believe Red Caboose would make such an error". ;)
The Red Caboose model doesn't match any NYC prototype. It looks like they picked a number in a hypothetical 59000-series following NYC 58000-58999 (renumbered 1936), which were 10 ft IH steel automobile boxcars with end doors built by MDT in 1929 for the CCC&StL. These differ significantly from the Red Caboose model, with different sides and ends, a 5/5/5 (inverse?) Murphy B end, end doors. Photo of NYC 220539, Lot 585-B car repainted in an experimental blue scheme in 1958 and rebuilt wit a solid A end here:
