What happened to the 3,000 1932 steel boxcars the MP bought

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  • December 6, 2015 at 10:50 pm #5471
    peggyrothschild
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    Mopac was a large owner of the ARA 1932 steel boxcars (with subsidiaries, purchasing over 3000 cars). What did they do with this large fleet? As far as I can tell looking at photos they weren’t made into MoW cars, nor rebuilt onto cabooses as the 120000 cars were, you’d think with their small size they could have been made into Eagle Merchandise cars but I don’t think they lasted until 1951.

    Did they sell them to other railroads?

    December 20, 2015 at 4:37 pm #7627
    princessclyne69
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    Here’s the only one I saw that could have been in revenue service. This is the 32463, and I have it noted as ‘new door’, but looking at the photo now, I believe this is a door off one of the 1951 rebuilds, extended to fit the taller car.

    I also have a photo of the left end of the 30304, but it’s being used as an accompanying car to pile driver X37. In that photo, the lettering is the same (9″ reporting marks, 7″ 1962-style (Champ decal) numbers).

    This is May 72, Wichita of course.

    Ron Merrick

    December 20, 2015 at 5:31 pm #7628
    princessclyne69
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    Photo re-submittal —[attachment=0:2k8fbjny]74-22 Apr 71.tif[/attachment:2k8fbjny]

    December 20, 2015 at 6:04 pm #7629
    princessclyne69
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    Here’s what the ORER lists for Jan. 1959.

    MP
    30000-31399 — 1358
    31400-31499 — 99 (Duryea-underframe cars)
    31500-32399 — 871
    32400-32499 — 96

    former other reporting marks, now listed as MP
    17001-17500 — 458
    ” note DDD — 28 (80000 capy)

    M-I
    4000-4249 — 248

    None of the above are listed as being in any kind of special service. So these cars made it through the fifties more or less intact, with only slight attrition.

    From the 1968 SoE

    MP
    17001-17500 — 24
    30003-32498 — 371
    31400-31488 — 6 (Duryea-underframe cars)

    M-I
    4007-4249 — 18

    Neat thing about the MoPac’s own listing is you can tell, at least at the top and bottom of the range, which numbers had survived.

    RG7

    December 20, 2015 at 11:25 pm #7630
    peggyrothschild
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    Ron
    Thanks for the answer. Ill have to see if any made it into the six digit renumbering.

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