PRR and other coke cars
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Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Folks;
Have any of you turned up any more on these cars?
https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12857
Was there a method behind the madness of using wooden box cars, and not hoppers, for shipping potentially hot coke?
I have not found the correspondence on this, but would sure like to understand.
Elden Gatwood
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mel perry
for sure, not hot coke, did the prr have any wood chip or saw dust business? ;-) mel perry
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:30 PM Gatwood, Elden J SAD <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote:
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Wasn’t the coke quenched in water before loading into cars?
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 3:30 PM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] PRR and other coke cars
Folks;
Have any of you turned up any more on these cars?
https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12857
Was there a method behind the madness of using wooden box cars, and not hoppers, for shipping potentially hot coke?
I have not found the correspondence on this, but would sure like to understand.
Elden Gatwood
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George Courtney
I don't know, but it would be cheaper to rebuild old boxcars than assign coal cars to coke service. I do know by mid-1950's the Interstate had hoppers for use in coke service.
George Courtney
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CJ Riley
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Ray Hutchison
I'm a little bit curious about the doors on the inside of the car?
rh
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Matt Smith
The Nickel Plate did this with several old Fowlers and later War Emergency SS box cars. For the doors they simply nailed up boards similar to grain boards.
-- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL
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