Re: C&S Baggage/RPO #10

Posted by Mike Trent on Mar 23, 2015; 10:25am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Baggage-RPO-10-tp1844p1858.html

Hi Bob. Sounds like an interesting series of cars!

I'll also be interested to see how you fare with #10-#12.

I had also been contemplating one of those as a compliment to my early #7.

While I was recently completing my #13, which was built using roofing and some other material from an old Crossing Gate kit for my train, I spent quite a bit of time looking for any evidence that #10-#12 were ever in regular service after 1931 when the C&S went toa single set train in "three times a week" mode.

If any of them were ever used after 1931, I can't find any photo evidence of it. I'm sure it must have happened occasionally, but it would have been rare. All photos I have found of the Passenger Train after 1931 have #13 as the Baggage & Mail.

It would be a rare enough event that I would even be skeptical that the date might be misrepresented in a photo caption.