Musings

NGJunkie Wrote:
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> Yes the 1902 roster shows 32' and the 1905 roster
> shows 38'4". Somewhere in those 3 years something
> happened. Rebuild, wrecked, renunbered or
> something.

Of course it might have been a year or two earlier, if some harried clerk just copied an older entry for the 1902 roster... I wonder how high a priority updating the dimensions on 3' ga passenger stock held at the turn of the last century on the D&RG.

BTW, does anyone know if there were, given the flexibility of wooden car lengths re compression ve tension, set rules for conditions of measuring the cars? (Rule xxxa: "When measuring wooden cars for roster purposed, hook an engine up and push 'em together.")

Also, has anybody actually gone and measured the body on 256 in recent years?

hank