Re: Red cars at RVJ
Author: Al Stangenberger
Date: 04-25-2010 - 12:30

SP 332 (later PE 457) is stored in Car House 3 at WRM.

The Utah bodies at WRM are:
SP 358 (coach) - in CH3 on temporary trucks
SP 600 (combine) in CH3, on temporary trucks
SP 602 (combine) in CH3, on temporary trucks
SP 603 (combine) - stored outside

PE 457 has a complete interior, but no mechanical equipment. The trucks it is sitting on are from SN 420, not from a red car.

The bodies from Utah are really stripped. For example, the seat brackets were cut off the side walls with a torch, the undersides were stripped bare, including cutting off the body bolsters which are large steel castings. We have the drawings to make new bolsters, but the pattern would be expensive. Also, no trucks for any of the Utah bodies, no seats, window frames, etc.

We also have no pantographs (actually Red Cars used Westinghouse S-522's rather than Brown Roller Pans).

The Utah bodies also have severe corrosion damage - the vertical posts in the walls are all rusted off at the floor line.

In 2007 we went to Utah and salvaged parts off several other bodies stored in a quarry near Wanship. When we finished, the owner planned to have a scrapper from Salt Lake City bring a mobile shredder to recycle the remains.



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  Re: Key System at 16th Street Station, Oakland Paul Shoup 04-25-2010 - 07:47
  Re: Red cars at RVJ Al Stangenberger 04-25-2010 - 12:30
  Re: Red cars at RVJ Dr Zarkoff 04-25-2010 - 15:54


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