McKeen Motor Car Near Tempe Railroad Depot
Datec. 1920
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number1987.1.1919
DescriptionMcKeen Motor Car near Arizona Eastern RR Bridge in Tempe. McKeen Trailer Car is attached at back.Details on motor car and trailer:
McKeen order number & Date: 048- 8/1909
Railroad: M&P
Road number: #1
Weight: 30 Tons
Length: 55’6″
Seating capacity: 72
Transferred to AERR #1 - March 1, 1910
Later transferred to SPCo. #69 - November 8, 1924
Final disposition: Scrapped 7/13/1934
Additional note #1:
Date originally listed in this TMS record as ca. 1930, but the motor car's No. 1 designation was in use from 1909 to 1924. After that time, it would have become SP #69. Date changed to ca. 1920 to reflect the general time period for the road number designation and when it appears the photo was taken - late 1910s through early 1920s.
Additional note #2:
There was also an M&P No.2
Additonal note #3:
Information on McKeen Trailer Car
Order received date: 12/23/1908
Railroad: SPCo.
Road number: T-10 (this identification may not be correct for the trailer in the photo - details of image to not match description, such as wheel arrangement - car in this photo has 8 wheels)
New Road Number as of 1/13/’09 (S.P. only): T-14
Weight: 12.4T
Length: 31′
4 wheel Arrangement
Transferred to M.&.P.R.R. as #2, Then sold to A.E.R.R. as #10
Info from following sources:
http://www.mckeencar.com/gallery-2/s/southern-pacific-company/
http://www.mckeencar.com/gallery-2/s/southern-pacific-company/southern-pacific-mckeen-trailer-cars/
Railroads of AZ, Vol. 2 - David F. Myrick - p.580-581
Status
Not on viewCollections
c. 1923
