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California's Railroad to the U.S. 1861 - 1996

Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Caboose

Class C-50-5

bay window type

SP #1930-1980

SSW #78-93

67 units built

C-50-5's built by International Car in 1974 for both SP #1930-1980 and SSW #78-93.

Details:

• diagonally braced smoke-jack,
• full end-plate on the roof ends,
• round cornered bay windows,
• side, door and end windows have square corners,
• internal fuel tank with filler mounted lower on the end wall,
• four? battery box doors, axle-hung generator and two windows this side,
• air receiver under bay, no louvered vent for the lav. only one window this side,
• sill cut-outs,
• delivered with:
  • double 'frog-eye' marker lights,
    • changed to single 'bug-eye' markers probably about Oct 1979
  • aluminum-framed windows screens,
  • mineral red with orange bay ends and end walls,

Apart from the obvious lettering differences, the Cotton Belt cars were built to the same specs.

from D. Scott Chatfield: via the (sp mailing list)

>As for the Walthers car, it's closest to the C-50-5,
>but there are a number of minor differences between
>this Milwaukee Road prototype and any SP class, so
>at best it's a stand-in.