Re: Box Car 4300

Jerry474 Wrote:
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> 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 Peal 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.
>
> [attachment 44722 Salida-USN.jpg]


Were not the C&S cars actually from the RGS/Victor Miller?