Re: PRR and other coke cars
|
Wasn’t the coke quenched in water before loading into cars?
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 3:30 PM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] PRR and other coke cars
Folks;
Have any of you turned up any more on these cars?
https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12857
Was there a method behind the madness of using wooden box cars, and not hoppers, for shipping potentially hot coke?
I have not found the correspondence on this, but would sure like to understand.
Elden Gatwood
|
|
|