ST. LOUIS DT (LATER RT TO ST) 1900 (CONT'D)

SERVICE RECORD
260 PR 2/25/01, 11/10/01, COL 5/27/03, AN 1/17/09, 8/14/12    269 ES 8/6/00, COL 6/17/03, 3/27/04, 3/13/06, AN 11/27/06, 12/7/06, SP 4/28/12, “Trolley ride” 4/14/14
261 PR 7/22/00, COL 12/18/03, AN 2/23/10, COL 11/6/18, 3/12/19    270 ES 7/24/01, COL 12/23/02, 11/14/03, 5/29/06, AN 11/27/06, 12/7/06, SP 2/12/14
262 PR 2/3/01, COL 12/18/03, 1/19/06, HC 11/19/07, AN 1/10/10, 12/16/10, 1/20/13    271 TCH 11/30/02, COL 11/25/05, 7/22/06, AN 11/27/06, 2/22/09
263 COL 1/12/04, HC 9/29/08, AN 8/5/09, 12/15/11, 11/25/12    272 COL 4/2/04, 6/19/04, 7/22/04, 9/25/05, TCH 9/21/15
264 ES 8/25/02, COL 12/7/02, PA 7/16/08    273 ES 1/26/01, COL 11/26/05, 12/11/05, 3/2/06
265 ES 6/30/02, AN 7/14/06, 7/6/07, 1/13/11, 4/25/12, 11/9/12, COL 5/4/17    274 ES 6/25/00, 7/14/00, 7/9/01, COL 12/31/04, 7/26/05, NA 9/5/21
266 COL 8/26/04, AN 11/13/06    275 ES 1/19/01, 3/26/02, COL 5/17/04, AN 5/31/09, 6/29/16
267 AN 2/22/09, COL 10/13/18    276 COL 2/1/06, AN 7/13/06, TCH 10/14/15
268 ES 6/10/01, PR 11/2/01, AN 4/4/07    277 COL 9/15/05, PA 2/11/10, AN 12/10/10, 6/6/12, COL 9/14/13

NEW ORLEANS RY. & LT. CO.  5'2½" & 4'8½"  1905

STDR 245-254  20'8" OB Lord Baltimore American Car Co. ON 637 28 Mar. 1906 10 cars 4'8½"
STDR 290-299  20'8" OB Lord Baltimore American Car Co. ON 637 28 Mar. 1906 10 cars 5'2½"
A split order, FB&D design, identical cars except for gauge difference.  4'8½" cars for the standard gauge former NO&C lines (St. Charles-Tulane Belts, Jackson-(North) Claiborne Lines).  (See p. h.)

Cars weighed, plus trucks w/o motors, 14,000#, 7'7" WH base, 33" WH, 4" axles, 2-40 hp. motors.  P - N.

Std. gau. cars' numbers conflicted with J&S cars, no problem as cars couldn't use 5'2½" lines.  The 400s arrival in 1915 made the 10 cars, along with other FB&D std. cars, surplus.  Many were RG for service on 5'2½" lines while the J&S cars that conflicted were REN (see p. p).

All RB min-late teens to “fishbelly” sides & Herr fenders.

NOR+L_294-bldr The American 1906 split order for 5'2½" gauge lines, 10 cars, Lord Baltimore truck. — Louis Hennick Collection of The Historic New Orleans Collection

NOR+L_293-Carrollton-Jeanette (69K) At Carrollton Station on Jeanette St., another “fishbelly” rebuild of an FB&D from American Car Co., ON 637 of 1906 — one of the 5'2½" gauge cars.  Lord Baltimore truck.  Carrollton Station was primarily standard (4'8½") gauge, but had some dual-gauge trackage by the teens which opened the shops for rebuilding and repairing of any cars.  See S p. 210 for track map showing “double gauge” track. — George Friedman collection

SERVICE RECORD (5'2½")
(See NO&C RR Co., p. h, for 245-254 while 4'8½".)
246 PA 10/28/20    293 SP 7/19/12
248 CP 10/9/17    294 CDT 1/13/12, 10/8/12
252 HC 12/24/18    295 CDT 1/16/14
253 TCH 9/5/15    296 HC 9/9/06, CLI 4/14/08, 5/1/08, 1/23/11

   297 CLI 5/27/07, 12/20/08, AN 9/23/11
290 CDT 7/17/12    298 CLI 9/18/08
291 CDT 11/7/07, 2/21/08    299 CLI 5/8/06, 12/3/07, 6/18/08, 2/1/09, 1/9/11

STDR 255-259  20'8" OB Lord Baltimore McGuire-Cummings Mfg. Co. ON —— 1908  5 cars 4'8½"
STDR 325-354  20'8" OB Lord Baltimore McGuire-Cummings Mfg. Co. ON —— 1908 30 cars 5'2½"
These were the last FB&D types bought for N. O. service.  Again typically well built, dependable, long lasting cars.  The FB&D's total was 217 cars for N. O., the largest single type used in service there, more than the DTDR Brills of 1893-95 or even the 800-972 class.  However, Perley Thomas did design more cars for N. O. (243 DTAR, three diff. types) than FB&D (26 cars fewer).

Note the std. gau. cars also conflicted with the J&S numbers, resolved by the REN — also solved was the number conflict betw. these and the American Car Co. DTDR semiconvertibles ON 643 of 2 May 06 (p. t).

Five of these cars REN (350-354 to 320-324) so that Prytania cars 400-404 could in turn be REN to make room for an order of new DTAR cars, which became the Southern Car Co. 400s.

P - N, P - DP 10/8/08 p. 11, arriving cars — 5 for PA, 2 for VI “which also had bad cars”, 3 for BSJ, 2 for DCT — 12 “here so far” (11 in sight on RR flat cars, loc. unk., poss. Melpomene & Washington, or New Basin Shell Road).  RB elim. waist & rocker panels, P - S p. 124, car 341.

NOR&L 328-Ext

NOR&L 328-Int Another split order, from McGuire-Cummings in 1908, 35 cars (5 for 4'8½" NO&C lines, 30 for 5'2½" lines), Ford Bacon & Davis design, the last of this type ordered for N. O.  This photo from page 328 of a McGuire catalog shows the car on a 19-A “Columbian” truck, a widely used truck McGuire manufactured.  NOR&L and NOPSI records of the late teens and 1920s, however, state that the McGuire cars were using the Lord Baltimore truck.  NOPSI had good performance from the Lord Baltimore trucks, and re-trucked many ST cars with them. — McGuire-Cummings catalog, George Friedman collection

SERVICE RECORD (5'2½")
(See NO&C RR Co., p. h, for 255-259 while 4'8½".)
255 COL 9/27/16, HC 1/21/19, COL 8/4/19    334 PA 6/28/09
256 CLI 12/3/18    336 PA 12/28/08, NA 12/10/09, PA 12/30/09
257 CDT 1/31/17, SCL 12/1/21    338 CDT 2/12/19, SCL 5/7/22

   339 PA 8/29/09, 11/26/18
321 NA 10/27/09, 11/5/09 (poss. DT semi)    340 PA 4/25/10
322 NA 10/2/09 (poss. DT semi)    341 VI 1/9/16
324 NA 3/5/10 (poss. DT semi)    343 VI 1/9/16, SCL 9/25/22
326 Orleans RR 11/27/08, 11/29/08, 6/15/09, 9/18/10    346 HC 10/5/08, 12/3/08, 11/17/10, 11/9/12, LO 1/5/14, VI 10/6/14, 2/1/15
328 CDT 11/2/14    347 HC 10/6/08, 12/31/08, 6/9/12
330 VI 9/26/08, 12/9/08, 8/26/11 [note], 2/19/12, 5/13/12, 9/29/13, DR 9/22/18    348 HC 11/20/08, 1/12/12
331 VI 6/1/09, 6/8/09, PA 11/26/18    352 BR 11/9/11, 12/22/11, 4/22/12, 6/29/14
333 VI 5/12/13    354 BR 5/6/10, 11/9/11
[Note] 330 On 8/26/11 hit by L&N loco., badly damaged, returned to service.

Text copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Louis C. Hennick.  Pictures copyright © 2009 by the persons credited.  Picture captions copyright © 2009, 2010 Louis C. Hennick and H. George Friedman, Jr.  All rights reserved.

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