Re: A related question

I understand that along with the Shay two old wooden car bodies were sold by the Casino. Does anyone know what happened to these cars?

One of this is/was a 1870s Billmeyer & Smalls box car built for the Nevada Central. This should have been saved, I doubt if any others survive.

The other car was a very unusual car. It was clad with a plan wood body, but the underframe had features of a passenger car. A few months ago I saw a photo taken up on the Sumpter Valley in the 1930s(?) that could have been this car.

Earlier there had been another box car body up on that hillside. It was an other Nevada Central body; but, it was a Carter Brothers car that had been built for the Monterey & Salinas -- an early California narrow gauge. The SPCRR group out of Ardenwood traded the Casino a plywood replica for the actual car.

Brian Norden