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Absolutely, though just six.

Northern Electric Railway built 6 stock cars numbered?3000-3005, probably in 1917.?Their inside length was 38' 11 1/2", with an inside height of 8', inside width 8' 4". Their total volume was 2594 cubic feet. They were rated for 80,000 pounds. The bodies were all-wood, with truss rods, and rode on arch bar trucks.?Curious that these cars had a 40' outside length, when most comparable cars were around 38'.?Given their exact 40' outside length, I suspect these might have been conversions?of NE's original Fitzhugh-Luther flat cars, but have found no firm evidence to back this up. However, the 1928 valuation in my collection says "rebuilt 1917".?A careful look at the ORERs in the CSRM library might show a drop of six flat cars around that time, but the 40' flat cars were fodder for all sorts of other conversions,?so this might not work.

The only photo I have ever seen of these came from the BAERA/WRM courtesy of Bart Nadeau, their number 41639NE I think (see attached). It is a shot of 1020 with the six brand new cars trailing off into the distance to one of the big cabooses. Interestingly, the stock cars are carefully posed in descending numerical order from 3005 back. They kept the same numbers under Sacramento Northern Railroad ownership.

By January 1929 (I have that particular?ORER listing) the stock cars had been renumbered 5000-5005, probably to avoid conflict with San Francisco-Sacramento Short Line boxcars in the 3001-3009 series during the merger into the Sacramento Northern Railway.

All six cars were listed as retired on WP AFE 32-34, victims of the post-merger purge of unneeded equipment. After that, the SNRY used WP stock cars.

Yours Aye,

Garth Groff ???