From the Fairbanks thread:


Ozark Mountain lists the Anacapa as sold.
What are the details on the superintendents car (photo, car builder, number, etc.)?

Thank you.
~Wesley

Is this it, between the coach and the caboose, only because it is short? I looked through 16 pages of Galveston photos on RRPA, and this was the only one I found. Santa Fe M/W cars were silver, though. BTW, the RDC is being restored in CA, if it can be restored after being flooded, so could the FM be restored. Philip M. Goldstein photo from 2014.

This is AT&SF superintendent business car #403, from the order of such delivered by Pullman to the Santa Fe in 1925 (4 cars, #400-#403, Lot #4884). The AT&SF ordered a total of 18 of these all-steel heavyweight division superintendent cars (to replace much older wood examples) from PC&M in the 1920's. The other orders were as follows:

4 cars, #404-#407, 1927, Lot #4977
2 cars, #408-#409, 1929, Lot #6250
4 cars, #422-#425, 1923, Lot #4747
4 cars, #426-#429, 1925, Lot #4800

The #403 now in Galveston was formerly owned by several individuals, and was located in Ute, TX, having been sold in 1969 (the AT&SF divested most of these all-steel superintendent cars in the late 1960's). It was resold to Galveston in 1990.

Several other examples of these cars are known to be extant, scattered across the Midwest and Southwest.

There's more details in the business car volume from the Santa Fe RY Modeling & Historical Society.