locked Re: Enoree River
Mr. Mims,
I happen to have the attached photo of #665 with painted black smooth roof
and ‘Fort McPherson’ on the nameplate. Enjoy!
Ed Locklin at mp367.
From: Ed
Mims
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2019 8:25 PM
To: main@SouthernRailway.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SouthernRailway] Enoree River Kevin,
I’ve been searching my files to find a photo of 665 after repairs were made but must not have one. I’m beginning to believe that you are correct in that Southern applied the smooth roof but I have always thought differently. I recall the car coming into Jacksonville in about 1965 on the Ponce de Leon with a smooth roof and with Central of Georgia still on the letter board.
Ed
From:
main@SouthernRailway.groups.io [mailto:main@SouthernRailway.groups.io] On
Behalf Of Kevin Centers
Ed
You wouldn’t happen to have a picture of the car post wreck but prior to going to Southern? I don’t, but would love to see it. I question that Budd applied the smooth roof, primarily because they would still have the tooling set up to remove the damaged portions of the original roof and replace them with fluted material. In looking at some of the repairs done on the car by Budd, they pretty well stuck to their going practice at the time-which meant fluted roofs all the way through the Amfleet cars. Not saying it didn’t happen, but my bet is Southern did it since other Budds in the fleet received the same treatment.
Kevin
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