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Actually I can't. This picture and what it implies is completely new to me.

I can fill in some details about the car itself. SN 2307 was from SN series 2301-2328, purchased from the WP. They came to the SN on AFE 3-47, but the AFE is dated 5-7-48 (confused? So am I). SN 2307 was formerly WP 317933. WP 316001-318500 was a special number block begun in the late 1930s for 16001-series boxcars that were still on arch bar trucks, and thus soon ineligible for interchange except with WP subsidiaries SN and TS. All 28 cars were drawn from WP series 316001-318500, which was being scrapped out?after?WWII. There is some evidence I can no longer find in my documents that some or all of the 2301-group were originally WP ventilator cars in series 30001-30200 built by Mt. Vernon in 1917. In the late 1920s all the ventilators were rebuilt as plain boxcars with steel ends, and apparently mixed at random with the other plain boxcars in series 16001-18300 that were also being rebuilt at that time.

I have often wondered if the 2301 boxcars came to the SN with AB brakes. I can't see any brake equipment in the photo as posted. Bill, can you see the reservoir on the original photo??When they were "unretired" SN 2329-2350 did receive?AB brakes, but there is no AFE on the Copeland list relating to such a conversion for 2301-2328.?

That this car has had its sides completely stripped by the?SN is new information to me. Perhaps this was done to other?cars in this block, but I have no?documents to suggest this. Certainly some 2301-2328 cars in this group were simply repainted with the arched "Sacramento Northern" without the sides being replaced, as the old WP herald shows through on some, such SN 2324 in the Will Whittaker photo.

SN 2307 was retired 9/59 and sold to F.L. [?] Botsford 1/60. After that, its fate is unknown, though some Botsford cars may have been resold as storage sheds.

Bill, is "what looks like an MW car" the one in the distance seen through the body near the B-end? If so, it?appears to be Substation 1. Note the hinged ventilator panels just below the roofline.

Yours Aye,

Garth Groff ??