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Charlie:
If I were to guess, you were probably in one of those round roof cars (200s) because I think (all) of them were converted to bunk cars. I never saw one of these, after the first couple years of freight service, that wasn’t a bunk / office car. On the other hand, I don’t think any of these 135 cars ever had any conversion except to a tool car, meaning no conversion at all except to have parts stripped off it over time.
As for the shock absorbers on the trucks, I too have noticed some cars didn’t have them. For those, the Athearn express BX truck might be better. If there are other differences that split neatly along a 25 trucks one way and 25 another way, then maybe it’s really true that 25 pair came from under the old 86100s.
RG7
