Re: The Slow Death Of A Boxcar


 

Cane or bagesse?

 

 

Thanks!
--
Brian Ehni

 

From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Bob Chaparro <chiefbobbb@...>
Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 12:28 PM
To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
Subject: [RealSTMFC] The Slow Death Of A Boxcar

 

This almost certainly was the last "assigned service" for T&NO 35247. Its glory days were long gone. The photos are from the Library of Congress.

Loading sugarcane into boxcars near Delcambre, Louisiana, 1938:

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b20000/8b20700/8b20794v.jpg

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b20000/8b20700/8b20793v.jpg

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

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