Re: Coach/Smoker #256(??) comes back home

Jeff Ramsey Wrote:
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> ... [One] mystery is that sometime between
> Oct 1, 1902 to May 1, 1905 the car length was
> increased from 32' to 38'4"? Another mystery
> is when the duckbill roof was converted to a
> bullnose and the single pane windows were re-
> built as double pane as shown different from the
> folio?  The interior ceiling shows evidence of the
> duckbill like 284, 280 etc. ...


That seems like an awful lot of almost random rebuilding - is there ANY chance that the original 32' #256 was scrapped or sold, and its number re-assigned to the 38'4" one currently in Antonito?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/2012 02:13PM by Russo Loco.