Need baggage - mail car help!

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Sorry, Ed, but the roof on 11 would have been clerestory, just like 10 (check the photo link). I am not aware of any of these cars ever going to D&SL or D&RGW, but the resemblance is striking. Is it possible that one went directly to AC, and the records of D&RGW ancestry are wrong?
Jim Nichols




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Won't be much help, but be advised that both the 10 and the 11 were used on the Abingdon Branch in the 1950s.  The 10 had the clerestory roof as I recall, and the 11 was a round roofer.
 
EdKing


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Subject: Need baggage - mail car help!
I am doing some research on the N&W class BMg baggage - 15' mail apartment cars and was wondering if anyone could help me with some information.  The original series appears to have started with the number 10 and it is known to me that there was a number 11 as well.  One car later on was converted to class MS3 mail storage and numbered 1425.  Can anyone tell me anything more about the series, how many cars there actually was and what their numbers were?

The reason I am asking is because of a baggage - 15' mail apartment car that ended up on the Algoma Central roster as their 208.  It appears that prior to going to the AC the car was Rio Grande 632, ex-Denver & Salt Lake 560, the only car of its kind.  But in looking at a shot of N&W 11 and AC 208 (renumbered as AC 10059 in MofW service) the car is nearly identical, save for some alterations for MofW service.  Was there another car in this series?  I can help wondering if there was since the Rio Grande took over the D&SL before the 1956 diagrams that I have.  Here are the two shots I am comparing... minor detail differences.

N&W 11
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2047.jpeg

AC 10059
http://algomacentral.railfan.net/images/AlgoCenRy/AC_10059_Steelton_5-30-1981.jpg
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1957938

Thanks in advance!!!
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