N&W boxcars without doors

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Those 40'ers were long used in newsprint service, too.

WJPowers

On 11/28/2018 10:09 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
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> Was this also practiced during the steam era?
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> The door-less box cars didn't make their appearance until the mid-1960s.
> The so-called standard box car had been 40 ft. in length with 6 ft. 
> doors -
> but as time went by, it didn't meet the requirements of some 
> shippers.   There
> were instances where  tow motors wouldn't clear the six ft. doors.  
> Then too,
> many-a-box car would be guided to the rip track because the doors 
> wouldn't open.
> So as plug-door boxes and hy-cube cars entered the scene,  the 
> forty-footers
> ended their career hauling low-revenue limestone on friction-bearing 
> trucks.
>             Harry Bundy
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