"benjaminfrank_hom" wrote:

An outstanding starting point is John White's _The American

Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel,

.......at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0801852366/ref=sib_rdr_fc/102-

1139549-

2569753?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-link

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Ben,

Thanks for the link. I went there and bought the book. I also got
his book on passenger cars (OT). Both look promising.

Thanks, Paul Hillman