This car has wood flooring with an overlay of perforated steel floor protection plates. I don't know what brand of plates these are. The namesake Doweloc car flooring was 12" wide laminated hardwood

How about any other kind of produce? Andy Jackson Santa Fe Springs CA

The C&O also had similar cars with the reinforcing rods.

Bob: Did you attache the wrong photo to this message? I am seeing PE 10067 (not 2417), and it's pretty clearly a 1940s pic (not 1918). ???? -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

Friends, The B&O converted older boxcars into coke gons by removing the roofs and tying the sides together with steel rods (that was the method in photos I have seen). This was done over several

Bob Chaparro wrote: The rather miscellaneous fleet of cars acquired by the "new PE" from the "old PE" and elsewhere are quite a complex story, well covered in several PE books, notably

Bob and Friends, Old PE boxcars 2072-2124 are listed in CARS OF PACIFIC ELECTRIC V. 3 as being renumbered to New PE 2382-2434, no doubt in conjunction with the 1911 merger which consolidated all the

I'm patiently waiting....... Jeff White Alma, IL

PE Boxcar 2417 A friend sent me this photo from the Brea (CA) Museum. Seen is Pacific Electric boxcar 2417 in Brea in 1918. I checked Thompson's SP boxcar book and there is no PE series for this

Photo: Pacific Electric Boxcar 2082 At El Monte Depot (Undated) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/85349/rec/180 Use the slider to

Maybe they're racks for tomatoes?

Matt; I looked into that, also, and don’t think these cars were up to it. They were old, old, and of early, not very rugged, design and construction. I also cannot find any evidence that

Matt; Thanks for confirming that. I think I have seen a NKP box in that service. As improbable as it sounds, I think they nailed them in place, climbed the ladder to get out, then filled the

I was wondering about that unloading question, too. Could they have been rotary-dumped? Tom E.

The Nickel Plate did this with several old Fowlers and later War Emergency SS box cars. For the doors they simply nailed up boards similar to grain boards. -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL

Ray; I am, too. They are not plugs, but added to the back of the doorway. I cannot find anything on how that was supposed to work, but assume it seals the doorway from escape of coke, although I

I'm a little bit curious about the doors on the inside of the car? rh

Friends, D&RGW series 23000-23099 were 53' 6", 50-ton cars built by AC&F in 1956. They were nearly identical to series 22000-22199 built in 1944 by Mt. Vernon, and 22200-22249 which were built by the

I have a photo of 4815 which is near identical with these ends built in 1937. Barry Bennett, UK

George; You are certainly right. Yet the PRR also owned scores of purpose-built coke hoppers (H22). Plenty for everything the PRR did with coke. And who the heck wanted to unload a box car full