Nostalgia & History > Freight Car Friday: Ancient Mop specimen

It’s amazing what you can find with just a little bit of digging. I wondered about the StLB&M reporting marks, which I’d never seen before. And it helps to have on-line access. With that intro, I’ll just step out of the way and let Wikipedia write this thread:

“Chartered on June 6, 1903, the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway -also known as the Brownie- was a 200-mile U.S. railroad that operated from Brownsville, Texas, to Gulf Coast Junction in Houston, Texas. It served numerous towns and cities along its routes and operated a rail bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in [con]junction with the Mexican government. The Brownie connected the citizens of Brownsville to nearby Corpus Christi for the first time on land rather than using water transportation. > (several paragraphs edited out) < After 13 years of trusteeship - the longest of its kind in North American history - the StLB&M -as well as the other Gulf Coast Lines subsidiaries- were reorganized and merged away into the Missouri Pacific under the presidency of Paul J. Neff on March 1, 1956.”

1. StLB&M 3185, adorned with the classic “Route of the Eagles” logo was sitting in Scott City, KS on August 25, 1987.
Original Kodachrome slide by James W. Watson.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Jim Watson (UP6900)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/21 08:35 by santafe199.

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First-rate rare catch.
Bob

That had to have been quite the find in 1987. Thanks for sharing.

Tim Dickinson
La Verne, CA

I photographed it in a few miles down the road to the west in Tribune, KS on Oct 11, 2017.  It was sitting on the end of a wye track near the intersection of Iowa and Second St.  Certainly museum worthy.  

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That's a rather unusual box car too.  I wonder if Sunshine Models did that one?
SR

Rathole Wrote: > ...  I photographed it in ... Tribune, KS on Oct 11, 2017 ...

Cool ! And you got the other side of the cars as well. I'll have to swipe (download) a copy for the ol' file... ;^)

Lance

Appears to be a rebuild of a USRA single sheaved boxcar. 

I seem to remember someone's shot of two cars like this at Scott City. Or maybe it was just a railfan hallucination.  Any ideas?

Conch Wrote:
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> I seem to remember someone's shot of two cars like
> this at Scott City. Or maybe it was just a railfan
> hallucination.  Any ideas?

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Here's one of those cars at Scott City Oct 3, 2013.  No idea if it's still there.   

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Conch Wrote:
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> I seem to remember someone's shot of two cars like
> this at Scott City. Or maybe it was just a railfan
> hallucination.  Any ideas?

atsfer posted one not too long ago:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5146953,5147158#msg-5147158