| RR Name | AAR Car Code | Description | Car Number | Car Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPLC | Crane | |||
| OPLC | Crane Tender | 1 | ||
| OPLC | Fire tender | |||
| OPLC | Tank | |||
| OPLC | Ballast | |||
| OPLC | Refrigerator | |||
| OPLC | XM | Sand | xm1c | |
| OPLC | XM | Sand | xm1c |
| RR Name | AAR Car Code | Description | Car Number | Car Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPLC | Crane | |||
| OPLC | Crane Tender | 1 | ||
| OPLC | Fire tender | |||
| OPLC | Tank | |||
| OPLC | Ballast | |||
| OPLC | XM | Sand | xm1c | |
| OPLC | XM | Sand | xm1c |
The WWSL began its life in search of used equipment to meet the myriad of online business opportunities that mandated its creation and operations
To support the OPLC, the WWSL pruchased thru equipment brokers rutland rr flat cars as replacements for the Fitzhugh-Luther flat cars, in turn converting the Fitzhugh-Luther flat cars to tool, bunk and other specialty cars.
To support sand and gravel business created by the Grand Coulee Dam project, the WWSL purchased ARA 70 ton hoppers.44
To support the coal operations, the WWSL purchased USRA 55ton 2 bay hoppers
Among the early maintenance cars were tool and bunk cars.These car had broad steps immediately below the door and a ladder to the left, classic maintenance duty features. These likely included caboose 623, which may have used parts from a boxcar of the same number, and possibly also cabooses 603 and 604, though their origin is not known for certain. Livermore also sold the NERY a group of flat cars numbered 400-426. Bunk cars 1000-1005 were rebuilt in 1914 from cars in this series, though again their original numbers are not known. Separate records have not been found for the majority of cars in these two groups.
The Pennsylvania Railroad sold the NERY at least two 50' wooden coaches, and a matching baggage car in 1907. The coaches were almost immediately converted to bunk cars 353 and 354. The baggage car was numbered 90 and logically used as a trailer for baggage, express and milk shipments. In 1912 it became a traveling demonstration car for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to promote rural electrification. Later the car was converted to a maintenance car, probably around the line's 1918 reorganization as the Sacramento Northern Railroad.
from N.B. Livermore boxcars in the 103-130 series. and
Another Fitzhugh-Luther flat car conversion, MW 938 was found at Fairfield in 1946.
Reassigned by the SNRY as a pole car in 1932, it was built in 1907 as NERY 1213.
Wilbur C. Whittaker photo; Garth G. Groff collection.
Under WWSL ownership, maintenance cars were more rationally renumbered into the MW000 series.
a few maintenance cars: a Brownhoist locomotive crane, a second Brownhoist crane (probably not self-powered), a steam-powered boom crane on a flatcar, a rail car, a Marion steam shovel, and a locomotive tender, possibly attached to one of the cranes or the steam shovel
Several converted to maintenance service in 1929 were scrapped in the general house cleaning of 1949.
The WWSL apparently began the policy of adding "MW" before maintenance car numbers by the mid-1920s. This practice was continued by the post-merger SNRY in 1929 and was followed until the last dedicated SNRY maintenance cars were retired in the early 1970s.
Three used tank cars were purchased in 1937 as water cars MW 66-68. They were often
assigned to the weed burner train. The wooden box protected a hose reel and nozzle.
Wilbur C. Whittaker photo; Garth G. Groff collection.
Of special interest are the SN's three 7,500 gallon water tanks, MW 66-68. These were purchased used in 1937 from an unknown source. At first glance, they are similar to American Car & Foundry Type IV tanks built around 1910. Although they probably had other uses, the tanks were often used for fire control on weed burner trains. At least two had large boxes next to their domes to protect water hoses and valves, and possibly gasoline-powered pumps.
the SN did not use powered service equipment. By the 1950s, nearly all the former cars had been scrapped, or in some cases grounded as sheds at Coal Grove, Headquarters or Wickwood.
Excepting a few flat cars, early all the remaining wood-underframe freight cars not sold for scrap were converted to maintenance service in the years after World War II, particularly in 1947 and 1954.
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