Had occassion to pick up a 2402 Union Pacific gondola during my
travels the past couple of weeks. But guess what... although it's
got the same catalog number as the original A1G release, it's not an
A1G!
The A1G release under this cat number is yellow lettering on freight
car red and carries reporting marks UP 60900.
This one with the same cat number is white lettering on freight car
red and carries reporting marks UP 62005. The underframe is clearly
marked "Atlas USA".
I'd put this later UP item in the same chronology as the Wabash and
Rock Island gons that are already in the accumulation. Wingard has
three other gons allegedly from this time period but never produced:
Chicago & Illinois Midland, B&O and Soo Line.
Wingard does list this UP gon, or should I say both, but has both
with yellow lettering.
A rare find? Well, I doubt it, but certainly another curiosity and
another example of an A1G cat number being repeated for later use.
Cheers,
George
(Your list owner)
