CRP&L Co. Cars 435-454       

Open Car at Merritt Street car house.  Photo from Dave Bunge Collection.

435-454 - Twenty double truck open cars built by the St. Louis Car Co. during 1903.

Remarks: Cars 435-437 were OOS 7/30-1920.  Car 438 was converted to line car 060 in 1922.  Cars 439-454 were converted to closed cars in 1917.  Car 455 was converted to a closed car in 1915.

Car 454 after it was rebuilt as a convertible car in 1917 when the State Legislator eliminated open cars by requiring a center aisle.  As a convertible car 454 could be used all year around either in this configuration for summer or with windows and sides added for winter.  What it couldn't do was seat 60 as it did when it was an open car. Photo from the Dave Bunge collection.

Interior of convertible car 454.  Photo from Dave Bunge Collection

Car 442 in its winter attire.  This probably was how the car was used summer and winter toward its end of life.  Photo from Dave Bunge Collection