Ben, the first Hydra-Cushion box car was completed in December 1954.
Tony Thompson wrote: Ben, this is far from the prototype Hydra-Cushion car, though B-50-47 was an early class built with that device.
Misread the caption...
I was surprised that this class dated to 1958 - I always thought the Hydra-Cushion underframe dated from the early 1960s. When was the prototype car built?
Ben Hom
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