This light box car red 30’ box car has the large, white circle Southern Pacific Coast “Sunset Route” logo and runs on brown Diamond Arch Bar trucks. Originally built for the Oregonian Railroad as #102, SPC 368 came to South Pacific Coast in 1899 and was scrapped in 1906. This car was typical of the standard 10-ton Carter Brothers narrow gauge box car. Numbers 92,104-176 & 288-336 were the unique 28’ Carter combination box/stock cars, originally used as ventilated box cars for fruit. The first lettering scheme was an 8’ diameter sunburst logo that read South Pacific Coast. Sometime after 1888 when S.P. purchased South Pacific Coast, the logo was changed to read “Southern Pacific Company”. (The Reporting Marks stayed the same.)
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