Limestone Boxcars

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Harry,

 

In what must have been one of its last movements as property of
Anheuser-Busch, Adolphus moved northward on the Gulf Coast Special, ACL 76
from Sanford, FL early in the morning of December 7, 1964 for transfer to
ACL 18 the Seminole at Jacksonville on its way back to St. Louis via Atlanta
and Carbondale, IL.

 

The consist of ACL was pretty pedestrian that evening-except for its special
guest:

 

            Engines ACL 506, 532, 510

 

            REX 7761 express reefer carrying express to Atlanta via ACL 18

            REX 6949 express reefer carrying express to Jacksonville

            ACL 724 Class F-10 baggage-mail (30-ft Postal Apartment)
carrying bulk mail to Jacksonville

            ACL 565 Class C-8 74'-9" hw express car carrying storage mail to
Jacksonville

            ACL 10 Class D-6, 60'-0" full RPO, sorting mail to Jacksonville

            ACL 1309  see note, storage mail to JAX

            ACL 676 Class E-11, hw combination passenger-baggage car
carrying express to JAX

            ACL 1122 Class A-16 hw 56-seat coach to JAX

            PS lw sleeper Banana Road to St. Louis

            PVT Adolphus to St. Louis

 

Note: The train sheet showed car number 1309 as having ACL reporting marks.
However, there is no such ACL headend car. This is most likely SAL 1309, of
the 1300-class hw horse express cars. SAL 1309 was named Crusader.

 

The car was in storage mail service to Jacksonville that night.

 

As Mr. Bundy reported, the Adolphus became PRR 120, the Pennsylvania, in
1965.

 

The trainsheet above is from the collection of and is courtesy of the
estimable Harry Bundy.

 

Best regards,

 

Dave Lambert

 

 

            

 

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John:

It could be a PS-1.  I know that Wabash built box cars, but I don't

know when De Crater Shops went out of the box car business.  Seems

I recall a Pullman ad displaying a Wabash box car.  You didn't ask BUT --

Wabash also built Adolphus , the streamlined business car  used by the 

Ant Hyser-Busch brewery.  In 1965, it was transferred to PRR and 

became one of their business cars.

                                                         Harry Bundy 

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