Boston Library and Double door cars
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Folks,
Combining two threads here, the photo posted earlier: http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786323249/sizes/o/ in/photostream/ shows the end of a PRR X25A as the first car in the photo. The X25A was a double door automobile car version of the X25. Looking at the photo, the ball keystone (or circle keystone) is on the right side, just the opposite of what I said. Why might that be? Well, the X25 had a center leftward opening door (aka "wrong way"). The X25A's second door was added to the right of the original door, not to the left. Thus fully opening the doors on the X25A would not obscure the reporting marks on the left side but would if they were on the right side. Of course, the X25 single door had the reporting marks on the right, not the normal left. An exception to every rule <VBG> Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ________________________________ |- ______/ O O \_______ -| | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ | ||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__|| |/_____________________________\|_|________________________________| | O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O | 0-0-0 0-0-0 |
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