Re: White Pass Flatcar 1181?

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 the vidcap because the 2012 photographer does not seem to be claiming copyright.)

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

Robert