On 12/31/2022 12:23 PM EST Tom Madden via groups.io <pullmanboss@...> wrote:

 

 

Started scanning my mostly-ignored 35mm color negatives and have come upon some forgotten treasures. March 1989, Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA, Santa Fe war emergency gondola 176695 had been stripped of all the wood components in preparation for replacement. Good views not usually available.

Tom Madden

On 12/31/2022 12:23 PM EST Tom Madden via groups.io <pullmanboss@...> wrote:

 

 

Started scanning my mostly-ignored 35mm color negatives and have come upon some forgotten treasures. March 1989, Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA, Santa Fe war emergency gondola 176695 had been stripped of all the wood components in preparation for replacement. Good views not usually available.

Tom Madden

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 12:27 PM, Robert G P

<bobgp5109@...> wrote:

Thanks for that, very interesting and I had caught myself wondering about these the other day so couldn't be more timely! 

-Rob P

On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 1:35 PM Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:

Last time I was at Perris this car still remained skeletonized. Apparently no need for a rush job here.

-Andy Carlson

Ojai CA

 

 

On 12/31/2022 12:23 PM EST Tom Madden via groups.io <pullmanboss=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

 

 

Started scanning my mostly-ignored 35mm color negatives and have come upon some forgotten treasures. March 1989, Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA, Santa Fe war emergency gondola 176695 had been stripped of all the wood components in preparation for replacement. Good views not usually available.

Tom Madden

 

 

On Jan 1, 2023, at 1:30 PM, mark_landgraf via groups.io <mark_landgraf@...> wrote:

Interestingly the Milw Road skeletonized a small group of these cars in assigned service to a mfr of pipe. The cars without floor and side boards didn't collect dunnage that needed to be cleaned out prior to the loading of the pipe. 

Mark Landgraf

Albany NY

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 12:27 PM, Robert G P

<bobgp5109@...> wrote:

Thanks for that, very interesting and I had caught myself wondering about these the other day so couldn't be more timely! 

-Rob P

On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 1:35 PM Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:

Last time I was at Perris this car still remained skeletonized. Apparently no need for a rush job here.

-Andy Carlson

Ojai CA

 

 

On 12/31/2022 12:23 PM EST Tom Madden via groups.io <pullmanboss=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

 

 

Started scanning my mostly-ignored 35mm color negatives and have come upon some forgotten treasures. March 1989, Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA, Santa Fe war emergency gondola 176695 had been stripped of all the wood components in preparation for replacement. Good views not usually available.

Tom Madden

 

 

On 01/02/2023 9:24 PM Craig Wilson <agecompanyphotog@...> wrote:

This MILW car is the only photo I have - no date or location noted but it appears to have a 1969 reweigh date.  It is also stencilled "Pipe Loading Only".

I couldn't find any photos of the cars carrying pipe loads.

Interesting sidenote:  I found entries in the Ann Arbor Railroad car ferry manifests (circa 1971) for several of these cars being shipped across Lake Michigan loaded with "rip rap stone."  Rip rap was the large rough stones used for building breakwalls along the shore.

Craig Wilson