Re: Kauai Plantation Ry.?

Thanks, Rackrail!

Recently, I found a couple of useless oddities about one of the flatcars sold in 1995 to the Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific R.R., also in Hawaii (and supposedly going to run again).

The Lahaina got seven flatcars from White Pass in 1995 and built up six into flatcars, with the seventh retained as a work car. By dumb luck, you can identify the former White Pass number of the Lahaina work car: WP&YR #1130.

The way you can tell is that, of the seven White Pass cars that went to the Lahaina (##1101, 1119, 1122, 1130, 1149, 1176, and 1177), only one had previously had blocks and chains put on the car by White Pass: #1130 (I used the 1982 WP&YR car roster to find this). Most of the chains are gone, but you can see some of the block-and-chain remnants in a photo that I am not supposed to post, because the photographer claims copyright. But, here's the link: [www.silverstatespecialties.com] . You can make out the same car in a later, 2012-taken youtube video, long after the other six had been rebuilt to passenger cars:
. (I attached a vidcap because the 2012 photographer does not seem to be claiming a copyright.) It is the same car as in the first photo. So, former White Pass #1130 is the work car on the Lahaina.

The remaining useless oddity is that this car NEVER was in Hawaii before 1995. The Army purchased it as a flatcar and sent it directly to Alaska in 1942. The White Pass had it numbered #111, until it started purchasing the ex-Hawaiian cars. Since it was the same architecture as the ex-Hawaiian cars, White Pass renumbered it in the middle of the ex-Hawaiian cars.

Robert