Limestone service boxcars

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Gents:
I found a slide that I took of a doorless 40' er, 'Norfolk and Western', apparently in lime service. I did not project it to get numbers, assignment, etc. I will put it on the list (that is getting long) to scan and post somewhere.
Charlie Long

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>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 9:36 AM

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>Subject: Re: Limestone service boxcars

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>John:

>I don't know of any pictures of the boxes in limestone service.   Certainly

>they were so filthy that N&W didn't send the company photographer  out

>to make pictures.  Neither can I recall any particular car  number.

>Probably any 40 ft. box with a 6 ft. door would qualify.  Although I  can't

>recall the number, one I remember was a Wabash.  Bear in mind  that

>these cars were primarily equipped with friction bearings, which are

>now outlawed for interchange service, so now they're gone.   My  uncle

>was an agent for V-C Fertilizer and at Christmas one year (1970 as I

>recall), all he could do was complain about how cheap the railroad

>was to send him limestone in cars without doors.  A two-train 

>collision at Suffolk that night gave me an excuse to leave.  There  were

>distributors of lime on the Pun'kin Vine that no doubt received lime

>in boxes -- Southern States at Boonies Mill for one.

>                                                     Harry Bundy