Re: RGS Freight Cars

vulturenest Wrote:
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> I'm
> just starting to learn about the early RGS rolling
> stock, hard to find when there's so much about the
> '30's and '40's.
>
Best references I know on early RGS cars: "Silver San Juan" by Mallory Hope Ferrell" and "RGS STory, vol XII (p355).
Too much to type here, basically they ere older cars and most were not considered worth the cost of converting them to automatic air brakes and thus were scrapped(burnt) in 1903. By the end of WWI the RGS had only 1 revenue freight car (a flat) to it's name.
And yes, Miller cars other than stock cars were used in interchange during the(brief) time they were used in revenue service.
hank