PC: Freight car #'s

["Christopher R. Hauf" <crhauf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the number is the key to beginning the quest to preserve a freight car
I have learned.

My problem is I just don't get to spend enough time out there searching for
this stuff and get them darn #'s.   I would love to see our museum,
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, preserve one of these cars and
we could sure use it.   If anyone gets a number, lemme know.  The next
battle then is to find out who owns the cars.  Seems like Conrail in this
case.   

But that number is the key...


Until later,
Chris 
 

At 11:50 PM 2/26/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-02-26 23:32:06 EST, pontiac -AT- dreamscape.com writes:
>
>>  Can anybody tell me about a CR MOW flat i saw yesterday?  it was jade
>>  green and looked like an old piggyback (75= ft long) car.  
>
>
>Yeah, but did you get a number?  Those cars should wind up in every rail
>museum.  Those are the former open tri-levels. They're 85-ish feet long
with a
>lower-than-standard deck of 30".  Rails can be welded to them, and freight
and
>passenger cars that the Class 1s won't interchange can be loaded onto them
and
>shipped easily.
>
>Those cars are reaching the end of their interchange lives.  Please, people,
>record the numbers of cars in service and starting asking for, or simply
>purchasing, cars for your favorite museum.  Jim Panza at TTX once told me
that
>these cars are still sought after and are being completely overhauled,
updated
>and put back in service.  I forget the number series.  There is a shortage of
>the long flat cars these days.
>
>                            ....Mike Del Vecchio
>
>