[RITSlist] 200 series coaches

[Steve and Barb Hile]

Bill,

I have copies of several generations of passenger car diagrams and we can piece together a bit more of the history.  I think I misquoted David Randall a bit, in the earlier email.

>From the diagrams it appears that cars 200 - 203 had the cosmetic fluting added  in the summer of 1942 (the date of the diagram that shows the fluting because there is a diagram dated 9-4-42 for cars 204 - 209 that still shows the flat sides and doesn't mention the tightlock couplers.

Then it appears that 204 - 209 got the fluting in the spring of 1944 as that is the date when the previous diagram was cancelled and the common drawing was updated.

202 was modified in 1945 as a coach - parlor, with a buffet.  A partition with a door separates the parlor section, in which the buffet is located from the coach section.  This is the 22 coach seats and the 18 parlor seats that Randall describes in Streamliner Cars.  (He misses the 1947 change.)

Then, in 1947, the RI removed the coach seats and placed 18 parlor seats in the section where the coach seats were.  In the section where the buffet was, they placed 4 four seat dining tables and 8 more parlor seats.  This lasted until 1959 when 202 was restored to 56 coach seats.  202, Kansas City, was the last survivor from this series, being sold in 1968.

Car 209 appears on a separate diagram dated 2-2-49 where it, apparently, received a 64 volt diesel engineator generator and electric heat.

I hope that this is helpful information.

Regards,
Steve Hile
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  Steve,

  Thanks for the information on the RI's 200 series coaches.  While Randall's information is usually very accurate, in this case it doesn't match the RI diagrams when it comes to coach 202.  

  It appears that coach 202 was first converted to a coach-parlor car in 1945, then ca. 1947 was converted into a diner-parlor, then converted back to a full coach in the late 1950s.

  These 200 series cars did not originally have tightlock couplers and electric brakes.  Those were added beginning in 1943 to make the cars compatible with Rocket trains, and it seems likely that the cars were painted Rocket colors (silver) at that time.

  Thanks again,

  Bill Pollard





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