[PRCo] High Floor Work Cars

[Fred Schneider]

Someone this month asked how many high floor cars became work cars....

4016 = M450
4030 = M195
4039 = M451
4100 = M452
4101 = M453
4115 = M454
4116 = M455
4126 = M456
4128 = M457
4130 = M196
4131 = M197
4140 = M458
4145 = M459

Sometimes one lacks the ambition to go through the original documents
car by car.  These came off a roster that Bob Brown had and may be
suspect.   I imagine that he or Charlie Dengler recorded the actual
notes but that should not infer that a single car in column A became a
single car in column B, i.e. that 4016 became M450.  A car in column B
may have been kit bashed from the bests parts of several high floor
cars.

But, it crudely answers the question that 13 4000s and 4100s were
temporarily given a new lease on life.

This does not answer how many earlier high floor cars were converted ...
because every earlier passenger car was "high floor" by comparison to a
4200.  Some lasted very briefly, for example one of the Kuhlman 3600s
that escaped the funeral pyre in 1928 to become a tow car, only to be
scrapped four years later.