Re: Sunset Boxcar

Jeff Ramsey Wrote:
...I guess don't always believe what you
> read because as Todd had stated that the C&NW had
> acquired quite a few old cars from the UPD&G...

I don't know whether they were purchased or leased, and whether they were all UPD&G or also DL&G or other UP lines, but there's no question they were in use. This photo shows seven UP cars and two C&N cars very early on the C&N just below Ox Bow:



> ...but I am pretty sure that the 4 car bodies
> at Sunset were left behind by the GSL&P

I won't argue with this opinion. The cars do appear to be along the UPD&G (originally GSL&P) alignment. I know that the the GSL&P grade is a few feet below the C&N grade in the area of the depot (from excavations a few years ago when a Sunset resident had a septic tank installed), and the ground does appear to be lower where the boxcars are. I don't remember any photos of boxcars on the ground in Sunset before the C&N, but there aren't many photos of Sunset in the later years of the UPD&G.

> ...It
> would be great to see the photograph or how Todd
> concluded that car 2's (608) 1885 numbering is
> 24152...

I'm sure you've seen this published photo:


An enlargement of the area in the green box shows this: