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December 20, 2015 at 6:04 pm #7629
David Boeschen
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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