Any more survivors? Certainly there's more out there... C&S was a subsidiary of CB&Q, last I checked... Here's a C&S caboose at Georgetown, CO:
Hemi- I like that 4-bay hopper. When I think of patched-over numbers and reporting marks, I usually consider it a modern thing. I don't often see it in steam-era shots, for example. But here it is, a car that was obviously relettered/renumbered before 1970!
Triplex, it might be the car was just restencilled because the number had become unreadable. BN seemed to usually renumber when they did that sort of thing, but I don't know about BNSF? (UP for example keeps lots of old reporting marks going) Still a cool catch though, and well spotted on a very nondescript car!
I assumed that's why they did it. What I meant was, I usually think of mergers when I mention renumbering, not just repainting unreadable letters. But it happens all the time.
