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Help Identifying Steam Era Boxcar
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Bruce Griffin
Friends,
I hope you will endulge me and help me identify what type of boxcar this was originally. It looks like a steam era car that survived into the 70s. While I model the B&O in 1950, this was a car my dad taught on in the 70s, so I would like to gather some info for an eventual model. I am not very good at identifying steam era boxcars, especially when modified and repainted. My guess is it was C&O or Western Maryland. Any insights appreciated. Thank you. Bruce D. Griffin
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Jim Gates
C&O 19000-19499 ACF lot 4740A built 4-57 had 4-3R ends and 9 foot doors. So they would be a good guess. There were some Western Maryland cars with 8 foot doors but they had welded 12 panel sides. Jim Gates
On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 10:34:18 PM CST, Bruce Griffin <bdg1210@...> wrote: Friends, I hope you will endulge me and help me identify what type of boxcar this was originally. It looks like a steam era car that survived into the 70s. While I model the B&O in 1950, this was a car my dad taught on in the 70s, so I would like to gather some info for an eventual model. I am not very good at identifying steam era boxcars, especially when modified and repainted. My guess is it was C&O or Western Maryland. Any insights appreciated. Thank you. Bruce D. Griffin
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On 12/6/2020 12:17 AM, Jim Gates via groups.io wrote:
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Bruce, That car and its apparent 9' doors has a WM flavor to it, and it seems to me to have an 8' 6" IH like 1932 ARA boxcars. All the photos I could find of similar WM cars have narrower doors. I did find a photo of a similar B&O safety car on the Fallen Flags web pages. It shows a bit more of one end. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:34 PM Bruce Griffin <bdg1210@...> wrote: Friends,
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D. Scott Chatfield
My guess is it's one of the B&O's late 10'0" IH boxcars, built in the late '50s if memory serves. I've modeled one of the C&O 19000-series cars and the proportions don't match. Scott Chatfield
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Scott, The C&O cars were a full 10' 6" IH and IIRC had 8' doors. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 2:07 PM D. Scott Chatfield <blindog@...> wrote:
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