N&W Pullman 4137 ?

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Assuming for the purposes of discussion that there is at least a grain of  
truth somewhere in this, the number 4137 could only be the Budd builder's  
number.  I tried to Google that in case a list of Budd builder's numbers  was 
posted, but apparently not.  If anyone has access to those archives,  that 
might shed some light.  Or, maybe those numbers are cross-referenced  on an 
N&W drawing in the Archives.  If there's no connection there  (that 
builder's number isn't one of the N&W Budd-built sleepers, or it's a  bad number) 
then we clearly default to Jim's analysis.
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 3/28/2012 9:23:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
Abram: The number 4137 is meaningless for an N&W passenger car (or  
Pullman). The date of May 1950 was less than a year after the Budd cars were  
delivered, and I have no record of any N&W Budd car being wrecked that  early 
(especially wrecked enough to justify loss of a builders plate). I  remember 
the last time you asked about it on the list. The plate could be  legitimate 
(I never saw one on the 20 sleepers Budd built for N&W, but  that doesn't 
mean they weren't there!). But the information on the business  card doesn't 
make any sense. Some of these cars are silll running on the  S.A.M. Shortline 
out of Cordelle, GA. Maybe somebody can examine  them to see if any of them 
still have such a plate somewhere. But 4137?  No!
 
Jim Nichols 


 
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Pardon me, but I attached the wrong file to my earlier post.  Here is  the 
correct file, a PDF which depicts the plate as well as the front and back  
of the business card attached to it. 
-- abram  burnett





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