N&W boxcars without doors

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Was this also practiced during the steam era?

Brent

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Dr. J. Brent Greer

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Dr. Greer:
Those door-less box cars were primarily en route to  agricultural
stations in North Carolina routed N&W-Norfolk-NS.  Without doors ,
the box cars were kept in limestone service.  Too many times,
a forty foot box (with doors) cleaned to handle packaged cigarettes,
for example,would return to the owning road coated in limestone dust.
                                                                       Harry Bundy
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