Superintendent Car 402

Updated 4-5-2014

402 was purchased by John W. Worsham, Jr., Ph.D. in December, 1968, from ATSF and had it moved to Lubbock. The car was moved to San Antonio in 1973 and stored it at the then Lone Star Brewery. Worsham as a member of AAPRCO named the car Fugue 402.

It was sold to Vernie Barber in 1988 and moved to Fort Worth. Barber sold it in 2001 where it was at the 8th Street Yard of the Taranatula RR. It was decorated as Stardust and lettered Frisco 502.

It was reported being dropped off by UP in Gilmer, TX on April 19, 2001 and was still there in October 2008 when the photos below were taken. It was located on spur track which goes into a former salvage yard on S. Montgomery St. just south of town, still as 502, FRISCO STARDUST. The trucks were lubed in 1989 by the Texas State Railroad and the brakes were serviced in 1991 by the Fort Worth and Western. In the summer of 2013 it was gone from Gilmer - destination unknown.

(Photo and information provided by John W. Worsham, Jr.Greg Slaton, Greg Nevels, and Steve Sandifer.) Click for enlargements.