Re: [cpsig] Mail car on No.11
- From: PBowers <waiting@xxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:12:41 -0400
At 12:05 AM 6/19/06, you wrote: In a margin note next to the photo,
he also records " Mail car worked on No.12 Vancouver to Ruby Creek, and dead
headed back to Vancouver on No.11 1930's."
I am trying to make some sense of this note re the mail car in light of
information from an earlier e-mail (which I have accidentally deleted).
Given the short trip to Ruby Creek, does this imply the same mail car used
for this service day after day, year after year (no doubt with maintenance
exceptions), or multiple cars in use?
I don't know times this train was operating but possibly the scenario
was mail arrived by night and train out to Ruby Creek took mail out
to stops during daylight hours. Some passenger trains operated this
way so passengers were not being dropped off in the middle of the
night out in no man's land.
As for the cars, a single car could go back or forth or a car from a
pool could be used as cars needed servicing, another car with the
required capacity would replace it. The original car would go to
another assignment once serviced. Composite cars would see lower
rated assignments usually but in 1946 they would see all but the
highest priority uses and then if that was all that was available,
they would be pressed into higher services.
Peter Bowers
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