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Another B&O M26
Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...>
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When did B&O start applying the patches along the lower sill? ( About the same time as PRR? ) Would most cars have patches by the late 50's? Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@mediaone.net> Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Richard Hendrickson
Tom O'Connor asked:
When did B&O start applying the patches along the lower sill?Yes and yes. The photo evidence I have suggests that more patches turned up earlier on the Pennsy cars because many X29s dated from 1924-'25 whereas most of the M26 sub-classes dated from the late 1920s/early '30s. However, patches began to appear on B&O cars before WW II and by the late 1950s every photo I have of a B&O (or LNE, Erie, PM, MEC, CGW, etc.) ARA steel box car shows extensive patching of the side sheathing above the sills. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520
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