Re: US Army and Navy boxcars during WW II + ammunition placards
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The US Army owned some ARA 1923 box cars -- there is a photo of one
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in the Classic Freight Cars Volume 7, and I have a scan of one with reweigh stencil LKOD 10-1958. But I agree I haven't heard of any that were in use during WWII. There's also a 1950 photo of USAX 24730, a 36 foot double sheathed box car that may be ex-Mopac. See Mainline Modeler 12/1986. Ed Hawkins' PS-1 roster includes MANY PS-1 box cars acquired by each of the armed services from 1950 to 1955. Railmodel Journal 11/1993 has a 1950 builder photo -- http://trainlife.com/magazines/pages/153/11083/november-1993-page-29 Tim O'Connor
Here is a photo I took of a U.S. Army car in 1982. The stencil saysThat car may have been built in 1941 but the 1943 ORER shows only tank cars under US War Department. Also, USAX was a post WWII reporting mark, which replaced the USQX on the WWII tank cars.
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