Wow! Thanks, Don!Lots of history here!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
WVCX 4112 before that.
Looks like originally MILW 62085, built 10/1975
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Is this car used to haul telephone poles?
It looks to me like the far end bulkhead HAS been raised just like the near one. There appears to be a color difference on the side of the bulkhead - the top corresponding to the extension is much rustier. I suspect that this car originally had a wood on steel frame bulkhead, and the wood was replaced with steel at the same time as the bulkhead was raised thus requiring the entire panel to be painted at once.
Shows how much I haven't seen yet...I don't have JOBX or NPGX in my files. I'm also reasonably sure that NPGX isn't the original reporting mark of this car.Now, it appears that the car has had its bulkhead on this end raised in height, but not the one on the opposite end (or maybe it did, though they seem to have repainted the interior of that bulkhead and not the exterior of the new one!). Yet the stakes seem to match the height of the bulkheads nearest them, and roughly match each other. Am I being victimized by optical illusions?
Car was previously NPGX 4112 according to it's UMLER record.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I believe this car has been repatched recently, I'm wonderring who the old owner is?
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