Re: Seeking FCC (Cripple Creek) Rolling Stock data

CrisGer Wrote:
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> some strange things happened to some of the cars
> from the FCC, some of the box cars were purchased
> by the US Navy and painted blue and sent to Pearl
> Harbor of all places and I am guessing may have
> been in service as late as WWII...remarkable how
> such humble cars may have seen the world.

Other than what I relate below, I have heard of no other F&CC cars going to Oahu and Pearl Harbor.

The cars that got to Pearl Harbor were sold to the Nevada-California-Oregon in 1915. Then after the Southern Pacific bought and standard gauged the N-C-O they were sold again. Some went to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge and some to the Pacific Coast. It was from these roads (or their scrappers) that the Navy obtained cars for Pearl Habor.

There were other cars that the SP shipped south to Mina for service on its remaining narrow-gauge operation. One of the ex-N-C-O (ex-F&CC) box cars was sold to Universal Studios and is now at the NCNG Museum.

BN