Re: Box Car 4300

Bill, the 4000s were gone before 1943. I saw one of them in Hawaii in 1969 while on my way to Vietnam. It was painted Navy gray and was sitting on a siding at the US Navy ammo storage site at Lualualei along with a Nevada County Narrow Gauge box car. The Navy had hauled ammo from Pearl Harbor to this site until 1968 but the track was still in place. The base was closed and locked down so I could only peak thru the fence.

D&RGW Authority for Expenditure No. 9286

DESCRIPTION:
Retire 31 narrow gauge freight cars
3 refrigerators
10 box
18 flat

PURPOSE AND NECESSITY:
Account sold to the United States of America (Navy Department) for consideration
of $18,000 f.o.b. Alamosa, Colorado and will be written out of the equipment in
February 1942. Covered by US Contract No. 96862

Record of Retirement as of February 28, 1942
Refrigerator 3 units series 32-78, numbers 32, 33, and 41

Box car 10 units series 4000-4999, numbers 4010, 4043, 4271, 4286, 4524, 4546,
4918, 4919, 4922

Flat car 16 cars series 6000-6098, numbers 6001, 6004, 6009, 6013, 6023, 6032,
6033, 6037, 6038, 6040, 6041, 6056

Flat car 2 units 6101 and 6110


August 20, 1942, Thursday
FIFTEEN CARS START FOR NAVAL SUPPLY DEPOT AT PEARL HARBOR
Fifteen of the railroad cars which were purchased from the Rio Grande by the government and which have been repaired, reconditioned, and painted in the shops of Gunnison have started their journey to the Naval Supply Depot at Pearl Harbor have started their journey to the Navel Supply Depot at Pearl Harbor being loaded on flat cars and shipped to Salida. More than 80 cars were included in the deal and a crew from 10 to 12 men is still at work on the others.

Elk Mountain Pilot
December 24, 1942, Thursday
LAST OF 87 FREIGHT CARS FOR HAWAII DELIVERED HERE
According to W.S. Gilmer, round house foreman here the last of 87 narrow gauge box and flat cars reconditioned at Gunnison's Rio Grande shops by the Chicago Freight Car Parts Company were delivered to the government this week and are on their way to Honolulu. After Pearl Harbor the Army undertook a renovation of numerous little systems on the Hawaiian Islands in the interest of nation defense and as slim gauge repair facilities were good locally, the company which had the contract has had 16 to 18 men at work here. Of the cars, 76 were purchased from the old Colorado and Southern, and only 11 secured locally.





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