I am helping the railroad museum in Drumright, Oklahoma. I am trying to find where on a Frisco coach you would find the car number. The coach number is painted SLSF "1062". However, that coach is in Alabama. The trucks have a name plate that says "1064". Per the former Frisco Museum All Aboard newsletter, Volume 3, Number 7, 1988 the coach SLSF 1064 was "dismantled and sold for scrap". Does this mean that the coach SLSF 1064 was striped of the vending machines and sold to the public or something along those lines? Also, this coach was used in Jenks OK by the city's Chamber of Commerce, too. This is is the one at the Drumright museum painted with the number 1062. It was that way from when it arrived from the Jenks city Chamber of Commerce. The museum is wanting to figure out its true coach number. We are just trying to figure this out. Thanks.
Let me know if you get any answers. I work with the museum in Alabama that owns the coach SLSF 1062 and they still run the car. We got our car from the Frisco in the 1960s, have the paperwork and I believe a photograph of some Frisco management folks and museum members accepting delivery of the car. We are about to replace the windows in the car and repaint it back in a Pullman green Frisco paint scheme. At any rate, we have had some members looking randomly at information online about our car and several have asked me how another museum can have the coach SLSF 1062 if we do. I told them not to worry, we are 100 percent sure of our cars history. In fact, the car number was in numerous places on the car in addition to the official paperwork. Anyway, it would be interesting to know who numbered the car in Oklahoma as SLSF 1062 and why they chose to do so, or if it was just by some random mistake.
Also, quite often on the cars, the car number will be stamped into the wood on the side of windows, or tops or bottoms of doors. A lot of the time there are car numbers written on the backs of mirrors or mirror glass. We have found this to be the case in many cars. I think on our coach SLSF 1062, even the wreck tools had the car number stamped on them. Some railroads were more fanatical about numbering and lettering everything. I am not sure to what degree Frisco did this though. Even one of the vestibule diaphragms had the car number on it. On another Frisco car we used to have there were even brass tags, painted over of course, attached to the side of each truck set with some sort of identification or rebuild numbers but they also had the car number on them. It is just basically an effort in searching. The car is bound to tell you its number somehow. It might take some exploration though.
I am probably late to the party on the one, and I guess you have figured things out by now. I just stumbled across this thread though, and I will throw this in, just in case. Coach SLSF 1064 was not dismantled, but went into maintenance of way (MOW) service as SLSF 108204. When the Frisco Museum was operating, I was able to copy several documents related to passenger cars, one of which is the "Historical Record - Passenger Car Equipment". That list shows that coach SLSF 1064 was renumbered during 3/1972, while 1062 was donated to the Heart of Dixie Railroad Club (HODRRC) 2/1968. Another record listing of MOW cars, mostly complete, shows the same information for coach SLSF 1964, SLSF 108204. I have no record of the MOW dispositions, but the Jenks, OK Chamber of Commerce had photographs of coach SLSF 108204 being delivered and installed on their site. Also, Arthur Johnson photographs show that coach SLSF 1062 had three vertical battens on the lower car side panels, while coach SLSF 1064 did not. Current photographs of both cars show that to still be the case. My apologies if this is old information.
