BRILL DT (LATER RT TO ST) 1893-95 (CONT'D) 22' OB CARS

50 ES 6/19/95, 6/26/95    229 PA 4/17/03, VI 4/26/05, 2/25/07

  
216 MG 6/13/95, COL 10/8/95, MG 1/13/96, 2/8/97    278 VI 12/21/03
217 HC 10/4/99, MG 5/20/00, PA 6/18/06, 1/13/08    279 VI 10/18/06
219 PR 1/22/97, TCH 12/27/04, 2/14/06, VI 5/13/07    280 PR 7/13/98, VI 9/26/05, 2/25/07
221 MG 12/22/01, PA 7/8/07    281 HC 2/10/00, 1/21/02
222 PR 2/25/99, 11/16/99, ES 8/12/02, VI 10/17/05    282 HC 3/3/00
223 HC 6/22/01, 12/23/03    283 HC 11/17/99, 3/7/05
224 PR 3/14/97, 10/19/97, HC 5/10/00, 6/21/00, 7/8/01    284 PR 11/13/96, SP 3/6/03, VI 5/31/06
225 PR 11/13/96, 5/15/98, TCH 11/10/04, PA 4/26/06, VI 7/2/07    285 PR 3/25/96, 4/12/96, 7/21/96, 12/2/96, 12/17/96, 9/22/99, SP 4/10/04, 6/25/05, PA 3/29/09, 4/15/09, 6/28/09
226 DAU 2/12/96, PA 7/15/06, HC 9/27/07    287 SP 9/13/05, PA 6/17/07, 2/9/10
227 ES 4/19/97, HC 2/23/00, 9/28/00, 3/7/01, TCH 12/2/05, 7/22/06    288 P - S p. 116 on VI ca. 1900 on Brill 21-C truck
228 PR 2/27/96, 9/11/96, HC 10/17/01, 9/16/02, VI 9/11/03

NEW ORLEANS CITY RR CO. (Second Corp. of This Title) 5'2½"  1899

STDR 240-259  21' OB Lord Baltimore truck Jackson & Sharp ON 1348-1367 26 May 1899 20 cars
These cars, intended for Prytania Line, were called “Early Prytanias”.  Replaced 20' & 22' 1893-95 Brills, sending them to other lines.  In 1903, The J&S cars inaugurated service on the “Royal Blue” Line (officially, the Napoleon).  J&S numbered orders for each car, not for lots as most other car builders.  These were excellent cars, sturdy and reliable, lasting many years.  One car RG for NO&C (standard gauge) lines (see BE roster).  Thirteen RN 1918 and RB like the FB&D — but poss. with straight sides like the 1900 St. Louis Car Co. order, nos. 260-277.  P - S p. 119, cars as delivered.

REN may have been slightly earlier than '18 because the 4'8½" FB&Ds (American '06, nos. 245-254 and McGuire '08 255-259) were RG after the arrival of the DT AR 400s.

The first cars starting with 240 were DT trailers from American, ordered 1894 — no conflict.

NOCRR_254 Builder's photo of Jackson & Sharp 1899 order, at Wilmington, Del.  21' body, Lord Baltimore truck.  These 20 cars were the “early Prytanias”.  Elegant and solid cars. — Louis Hennick Collection of The Historic New Orleans Collection

SERVICE RECORD
240 PA 2/4/02, HC 3/24/03, COL 11/4/05, HC 11/27/12, PA 8/20/13, HC 12/13/14, 11/11/16 (poss. FB&D)    250 MG 9/27/02, HC 1/28/06, 1/13/07, PA 11/23/10
241 PR 10/26/99, 10/31/99, HC 8/31/06    251 HC 8/25/04, 8/25/06, 1/20/08, 9/23/10, 3/1/11
242 PR 11/21/01, COL 1/2/03, HC 3/18/03, 1/24/07, SCL 11/24/15 (poss. FB&D)    252 PR 10/13/01, 10/22/01, HC 3/22/10, Orleans RR 12/19/13
243 HC 2/21/07, 12/18/07, 5/19/08, AN 2/27/10, LO 11/20/13    253 MG 4/11/01, 11/1/02, HC 6/8/06, 1/30/09, CDT 1/24/09, HC 4/9/12
244 PR 4/8/01, 12/4/01, DR 12/29/07, HC 2/28/10, NA 3/20/12    254 AN 10/2/10, NA 3/20/12
245 HC 3/7/05, 5/25/05, 4/8/08, 11/16/08, 12/21/08    255 HC 2/18/07, MG 2/23/07, COL 9/26/16 (poss. FB&D)
246 PR 2/9/01, HC 1/31/06, 5/22/09, 6/4/09, NA 5/2/12, HC 6/9/12, LO 10/6/13    256 HC 8/21/05, MG 12/11/06, HC 2/24/09
247 HC 11/21/03, 8/17/05, 11/10/08, PA 10/31/10    257 PR 11/22/99, HC 2/28/05, PA 7/7/09, CL 1/31/17 (poss. FB&D)
248 HC 11/5/06, PA 6/17/07, HC 11/22/09    258 PA 10/11/03, HC 11/15/08, 1/12/13
249 HC 8/11/05, 4/27/10    259 MG 11/8/02, NA 9/24/03, VI 8/25/09
REN 1915-18, car by car as RB or repainted.
By 1918, only six old numbers remained
(241, 244, 245, 251, 255 & 256).
240 to 100     246 to 103   249 to 106   253 to 109   258 to 112
242 to 101   247 to 104 250 to 107 254 to 110
243 to 102   248 to 105 252 to 108 257 to 111
259 — Disp. unk. — Is this the car reassigned to std. gau. division & RG (BE)?

DTDR 260-277  22' OB
30'2" OA
Brill 22-E St. Louis Car Co. ON 92 2 Jan. 1900 18 cars
These cars mis-identified in S.  St. Louis Car Co. records not available until Alan R. Lind's history (HS) publ. 1978.  Cars closely resembled NO&C DTDR from American, ON 120, numbers 71-82 (see p. g), with narrow waist panels.  St. Louis Car Co. records (HS p. 318) indicate N. O. Traction Co. ordered the cars, but N. O. City RR (2nd corp.) took over the former in March of 1899.  Poss. NOTCo made initial contact for the order before Jan. 1900, for the 260-277 cars took the place of some Brill 22' cars removed from their 1895 Brill order.  HS notes under truck column (p. 318) code “ON 5008” (order no.) with name “Moore”, yet the 1900 photo of 264 shows 22-E trucks (P - S p. 125).  260-277 poss. arr. w/o trucks and were put on 22-E trucks from the company's stock, for ST had repl. many 22-E trucks under 20' Brills.

Cars RB with waist & rocker panels repl. by straight (not “fishbelly”) steel sheaths on sides, P - S p. 79 car 275 ca. 1917.  Poss. all RT with Lord Baltimores or Brill 21-Es.

These were, like their Jackson & Sharp brothers, solidly built and rugged cars.  They began on the Esplanade Line and so well approved soon had a name: “Esplanade cars”.  DP 12/2/00 p. 8 “Eight big cars to start Dec. 3 on Esplanade.”

Text copyright © 2008, 2009 Louis C. Hennick.  Pictures copyright © 2009 by the persons credited.  Picture captions copyright © 2009 Louis C. Hennick and H. George Friedman, Jr.  All rights reserved.

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