Re: Case of the Missing Truss Rods - Revisited

Posted by Todd Hackett on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Case-of-the-Missing-Truss-Rods-Revisited-tp6387p6422.html

Jim Courtney wrote

...Fairplay boxcar is indeed a 27 foot UP built boxcar, as number 969 was the very last car built by the UP in the fall of 1883 (the Peninsular 30 foot cars began with number 970)...

I couldn't find any resources that correlate the pre-1885 numbers to the manufacturer and length (I think I loaned my Rudnick guides to someone many years ago and never got them back), so I found this list on line, and while it shows the 969 to be built by the UP, it also shows it to be 30 feet long, which seems consistent with the proportions in the photos.