Photo: War Material In Gondola Cars (1918)

Photo from the National Archives:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45518110

On the link scroll to enlarge the photo.

Budd Manufacturing Company.

I’m not sure what “Class B Bodies” are. Perhaps for trucks?

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

The first and fourth cars are C&O copies of an N&W design (class GI). The fifth car is thematically similar, but not the same (steel end sill, smaller channel sill, and the grab irons on the right may be recessed into the side?).

David Thompson

Possibly this:
   The B platform (also known as the B body) is a full-size rear-wheel drive car platform produced by General Motors (GM) from 1926 to 1996. Plymouth had a B frame style also around the same time frame  

 

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 08:38 PM, Lee wrote:

Possibly this:
   The B platform (also known as the B body) is a full-size rear-wheel drive car platform produced by General Motors (GM) from 1926 to 1996. Plymouth had a B frame style also around the same time frame  

The photo is from 1918 so I don't think so.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA

I'm not sure what "Class B Bodies" are. Perhaps for trucks?

Perhaps for the "Liberty" trucks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_truck

While those in the photo have steel sides, they have the same general layout as the wood-sided versions depicted in several photos on the wikipedia page, including the angles stakes close to the ends.

Earl Tuson

Several thousand FWD trucks were built for WW1. Those beds in the gons look similar to what was on the FWD trucks. Here’s a model sitting to the left of a 1926 Mack.