NEB&W Guide to General Service Gons - S

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St. Louis - San Francisco

• In 1906, the Frisco System got 200 steel GS gons, half of which went to their subsidiary, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, and the other 100 to another subsidiary, the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis. See these two roads for more info.

• There is a 1913 in-service photo of car no. 67517. The diagonals are just straps since these are Pratt trusses (and the diagonals are in tension).
  • [SLSF 67517.]
  In 1919, there were 1,779 cars in the series 66000-67799,

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