Coaches

Number 101 - Camera Shy
Combination, Coach & Baggage - Smashed in wreck of June 25, 1914

Number 105 part of the Hicks matched set - Camera Shy
Combination, Coach & Baggage - Burned partially in 1937 - until recently at El Portal

#106 Baggage/Mail/REA
Photo: Willis C. Hendrick.
Number 106
Combination, Coach, Baggage, Railway Express, and Railway Post Office

#107 Baggage/Mail/REA
Photo: Donald Foster Collection.
Number 107
Combination, Baggage, Railway Express, and Railway Post Office

Number 301 - Camera Shy
Coach - Smashed in wreck of June 25, 1914

#302 Coach
Photo: Authors Collection.
Number 302
Passenger Coach at the Merced yard. This coach was built in 1907 for the YVRR by the Hicks Car and Locomotive Works as a part of the 'matched train' set.

#303 coach
Photo: Donald Foster Collection.
Number 303
Passenger Coach

#304
Photo: Donald Foster Collection.
Number 304
Passenger Coach

#Coach # 305
Photo: Authors Collection.
Number 305
Passenger Coach

Observation #330
Photo: Harold K. Vollrath.
Number 330
Observation coach at the Merced yard. This coach was built in 1907 for the YVRR by the Hicks Car and Locomotive Works as a part of the 'matched train' set.

#331 Obsevation Photo: Authors collection.
Number 331
Observation - Parlor Car


ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS of PASSENGER EQUIPMENT

Observation #330
Photo: Demoro Archives: Ken Meeker Collection.
Number 330 Observation coach at the Merced Southern Pacific depot (1945).

PASSENGER EQUIPMENT
( at its peak )
Kind of CarNumber
of Cars
Number
Series
Seating
Capacity
Length
of Car
Coach 4302 - 3057070 feet
Parlor 2330 - 3315270 feet
Combination
Passenger & Baggage
11062862 feet
Combination
Baggage & Mail
11052665 feet
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The Official Railway Equipment Register
Reported February 1927