Somehow I stumbled into the Delaware Heritage Collection online today:
http://cdm15323.contentdm.oclc.org/index.php

Some amazing stuff here . . . builder photos of thousands of passenger cars and trolleys built by Jackson & Sharp, including some interiors and components. Also some drawings. Quite a bit of export equipment, but also gobs of North American production, including lots of two-foot gauge for Mr. Hussar!

Walt Lankenau

Thanks for pointing this site out. There certainly are great things here.

Ron,

I was looking at the site just a few days ago and if you search for "Charleston & Western Carolina" you will find the builders photo of No. 37 (ACF, 1914), sister to a former acquaintance of yours, C&WC/Georgia Northern 38 (ACF, 1914) along with...wait for it...an interior shot of the baggage compartment from the car end toward the smoking compartment and another interior shot of the passenger compartment from the vestibule end toward the smoking compartment! Now we have a better idea of what the original interior of No. 38 probably looked like, as I am convinced Nos. 37 and 38 were ordered and delivered together.

For everyone else, the car we're discussing was last operated by the Alton & Southern before being donated to MOT in 1968. It was gifted to a museum here in Albany, GA in 2003 and was eventually moved to the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah, GA where it has been undergoing slow, but significant restoration toward eventual display with Georgia Northern 4-6-2 No. 107 in Albany.

In researching this car, I stumbled upon a photo taken soon after donation to MOT that shows a white-lined 4-digit number on the car that includes the A&S herald. I would like to determine what number it carried on the A&S.

The photo was credited to Hal Carstens, and is found on the back inside cover of Carstens Publications, Inc.'s softbound book "Passenger Cars", Vol. 1, Wooden Cars, Heavyweight Steel Cars (ISBN 1-59073-003-8). Some time ago I wrote a letter to Carstens requesting to acquire a good, clean print thinking that I might be able to make out the number, but never received a reply.

If anyone has any connection to Carstens Publications and could assist me in obtaining a digital scan or high res print of this photo, I would be very appreciative. If anyone happens to have A&S work train roster information that might aid in identifying this car number, at least as far as when the A&S acquired it, that would also be very helpful.

Thanks for pointing that out. I've been doing research on steam inspection locos and by searching this site found that J&S/ACF built the carbodys for a Cooke product for the Erie & Wyoming Valley in 1898, as well as the later bodies for the Lackwanna's steam inspection car "B" and the two Rock Island steam cars from ALCO and Baldwin. I was already aware the bodies for Baldwin's Philadelphia & Reading 3rd #100 and Jersey Central #900 came from the J&S plant but found a photo of one on a flat car. Both of these were 4-4-0 inspection locos of 1902-03. Then there are the elevated cars they built. Who knows what else might be there. Between this site, the Kaminski book on ACF, and the ACF materials at the Barriger Library in St. Louis even more can be dug up. Glad to hear others have been successful.