Re: C&Sn3 Kitbash of the UP built 27 foot boxcar (so far)

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-Sn3-Kitbash-of-the-UP-built-27-foot-boxcar-Outfit-Car-Info-tp8100p8105.html

Wow Ken,

I just keep on learning things here! Beautiful little outfit car you got there, still think I need one in S scale.

I had just assumed that C&S 070 was a 27 foot car due to its number . . .






. . . since both 068 and 071 were shown as 27 foot cars. Folio 27 shows them as 14 ton (28,000 lb capacity) cars with UP swing beam trucks.

But then again, a couple of guys named Poole and Martin, in Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII, list 068 as former 7376 and 071 as former 7399. I've come to think that the 73xx series were Litchfield 26 foot box cars. So are 068 and 071 actually 26 foot cars?

Sneaky C&S narrow gauge.