Thanks for posting the link to that interesting photo, Jeff!

I'm wondering what the histories are of the cars seen behind the electric. There are several heavyweights and at least 2 lightweights; in 1954 P-S built 48 cars for the Paulista Railways (Companhia Paulista, or CPEF), in Lots #6896-#6900, which had been ordered in 1951 for the Trem Azul.

Lot #6896, Plan #7630: 15 2nd Class coaches, #171-#185.

Lot #6897, Plan #7631: 15 3rd Class coaches, #271-#285.

Lot #6898, Plan #7632: 6 1st Class coaches (parlors), #71-#76.

Lot #6899, Plan #7633: 6 diners, #871-#876.

Lot #6900, Plan #7634: 6 RPO-baggage cars, #471-#476.

Pictures:

1. Builder's photo of 1st Class coach #71, as published in the "Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia" (1966): http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpulm01.jpg

2. Color photo of 1st Class coach #71 in service: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cp_pullman_ext_color.jpg (Antonio Carlos Belviso photo)

3. Offloading of the new cars in Rio, 1955: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/ps_arrival.jpg (photo courtesy Maurício Torres)

4. Interior of an AC&F-built 2nd Class coach after refurbishing; I don't know which Lots the AC&F cars were built in: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpulm02a.jpg (photo courtesy Wilson de Santis, Jr.)

5. Floor plan of the P-S 66 seat 2nd Class coaches, as published in the "Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia" (1966): http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpulm04.jpg

6. Color photo of 2nd Class coach #176, in service: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpef_pullman_firstext.jpg (Antonio Carlos Belviso photo)

7. Color photo of the interior of a P-S 2nd Class coach: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpef_pullman_firstint.jpg (Antonio Carlos Belviso photo)

8. Color photo of the interior of a P-S 1st Class coach: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpef_pullman_int.jpg (Antonio Carlos Belviso photo)

9. Builder's photo of the interior of a P-S 3rd Class coach, as published in the "Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia" (1966): http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpulm03.html

10. Color photo of the interior of a P-S diner: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cp_pullman_restint.jpg (Antonio Carlos Belviso photo)

Sources:

1. "Streamliner Cars Volume One: Pullman Standard" by W. David Randall (RPC Publications, 1981)

2. Antonio Augusto Gorni's Companhia Paulista webpages: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~efbrazil/cpef.html

looks like another engine in the back was tipped as well, they go this far to get copper...sheeshe

You'd be better to keep the electrics running stopping the thefts. Again Oil prices and earth ecology has electric favored over oil guzzling things.

No value taking wire down, may as well upgrade the system, eventually you have to get new wire anyways, replacing the old.

They have to have an exception for older equipment for moving for the couplers.
It seems to me to move the engines now you would have to dissasemble them, send the trucks to a shop for regauging. Makes me wonder if the South Shore Shops could still do this magic.
That boxcab looks interesting, some modding maybe you could make into a 700 South Shore...maybe.. well, dreaming.

I missed the original post, but I can attest that the story about Cascade Rail Foundation pursuing a Little Joe is completely a rumor.

On the other hand, MILW U25B 5057 is currently sitting at Portola, CA waiting for the nice folks at UP to inspect and (hopefully) approve it for movement this week. It will be heading to the POVA shop at Usk, WA for cosmetic restoration. The plan is to then move it to South Cle Elum, WA for display under a yet to be built shelter.

Paul Krueger
Secretary
Cascade Rail Foundation