I found a file folder today with several 8"x10" pics of Frisco freight cars. One of them is a nice shot of SLSF 77641, a 41'6" gondola, class GB - the pic, and a diagram, attached. I'm not sure whose pic this is - possibly a Frisco shot, or more likely, a Charles Winters shot. I bought a lot of prints from Mr. Winters in the 1980's. SLSF 77641 is from the Frisco series 77000-77499 and 77500-78029. This was a loose collection of similar 41'-6" gondolas built by various builders in 1925-1930, and then rebuilt at Frisco's Yale Yard in Memphis in the 1953-1954 period into the configuration displayed by SLSF 77641. Note it is a nine-panel gon (as opposed to the upcoming Accurail Frisco gon, which is 11-panel, which the Frisco did not have to my knowledge). It is painted red oxide, with white lettering and what looks to be (?) a white outline coonskin herald. This car was built 3/27, and then shopped at Yale 4/54. All the cars in this series had Ajax brakes, but had various types of trucks - likely generic Bettendorfs, Barber S-2's, ASF A-3's, and whatever etc, etc, etc they had handy at Yale during the rebuild. FYI, a GB is defined as an open top gondola, with fixed sides, fixed or drop ends, and a solid bottom deck. This was the most common class of gondola. Other cars in this series had a coonskin herald with a black background - I have a partial shot of SLSF 77507 which shows this. Ken
