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Photo: PRR Boxcar 77827 In The Nevada Desert

Bob Chaparro
 

Photo: PRR Boxcar 77827 In The Nevada Desert

A Bob McKeen photo.

He comments:

"While in Carlin, I saw this Pennsy wagon roof box car in a field and managed to get close enough to record it. The build date below the keystone was 8-36."

X31A perhaps? Patches all along the bottom.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA
Jack Mullen
 

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:03 AM, Bob Chaparro wrote:
X31A perhaps?
Inset round roof, so X31 or X31A.
Single door, so X31A.

Last reweigh looks like 1960.
Yes, the patches are characteristic of older X31-types.
Notice that the patches are now rusted out.

Jack Mullen
Tony Thompson
 

Bob Chaparro wrote:

Photo: PRR Boxcar 77827 In The Nevada Desert
A Bob McKeen photo.
X31A perhaps? Patches all along the bottom.

   Any ORER will tell you that yes, it's an X31A. PRR helpfully included classes in listings.

Tony Thompson
Scott
 

How would that end up in a field in Nevada?   Sold off from a derailment or something?

Scott McDonald 
Benjamin Hom
 

Scott McDonald wrote:
"How would that end up in a field in Nevada?   Sold off from a derailment or something?"

Most likely, yes, either from the railroad paying out for the wreck or the scrap dealer who got the car afterwards.


Ben Hom
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