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Boxcar End: What Kind?

thecitrusbelt@...
 

Is there enough detail in the photo on the link below for someone to identify the type of end this is?

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nebbes61/9256674779/sizes/l

 

Thanks.

 

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA
jon miller <atsfus@...>
 

On 12/4/2014 9:37 PM, thecitrusbelt@... [STMFC] wrote:
Is there enough detail in the photo on the link below for someone to identify the type of end this is?

    Just a quick hip shot without checking books and old memory but Bx-Z or related???????

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Jon Miller
For me time stopped in 1941
Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS
Eric Lombard
 

Good Morning,
That is very likely a remnant of ATSF 35802-36501, BX-Z, built by Haskell & Barker in 1915. These were the first ATSF box cars with all-steel ends. There are general arrangement drawings and a nice photo in Railway Mech. Eng., Jan. 1916, Vol. 60, No. 2; p58. Also, Dobyne's "Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 in the Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Four,  pages 66, 217, 224, 242, provide more information about these cars.

The only other cars with these unique ends that wrap to the sides under the safety appliances that are known to me are AA 6069, 6077 also built by H&B, also 1915, as replacements into AA 6300-6399

Anyone know of any others?


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:51 PM, jon miller atsfus@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
 

On 12/4/2014 9:37 PM, thecitrusbelt@... [STMFC] wrote:
Is there enough detail in the photo on the link below for someone to identify the type of end this is?

    Just a quick hip shot without checking books and old memory but Bx-Z or related???????

--

Jon Miller
For me time stopped in 1941
Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS
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