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Re: LIRR MP-54 Roster w/wrecks (20138)

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Posted by Gerry O'Regan on Mon Dec 28 16:38:10 1998, in response to Re: LIRR MP-54 Roster w/wrecks,
posted by Wayne Whitehorne on Sun Dec 27 23:17:55 1998.

1319 is a possibility on the RVC car if the wreck occurred before all of the fleet was in place. As I mentioned, cars were renumbered to make everything fit. If the car in the picture is an arch roof car one of the other numbers is a possibility.

IIRC, the original fleet started at 1041? following the original Gibbs Cars. There may have been a jump around the baggage cars and combines, and trailers may have been numbered in the same series. Later cars got higher numbers, then the originals were renumbered up to create a single series. The original cars from 1908 got higher numbers than the 1909 cars in that particular reshuffle, then the vacated space was filled with the last order. Any trailers numbered in with the motors were renumbered down, making that series not chronological also. Finally there was a renumbering from the 1xxx series to the 4xxx series during the last rehab.

Sorry if I can't be of more help...

Gerry


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