VGN Boxcars

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Ken Tanner posed a simple question about Virginian boxcars on this list and
on the Virginian IO group.  It has led to a preliminary answer, some
discussion, and now a few of us are working on a more complete answer that
we'll try to consolidate the data from and post the results early in the
week.  Seems like some of us have a bit more time to research than usual.

Frank Bongiovanni

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 7:15 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> The Virginian had 25 BX-1 cars, numbered 62000-62024 built by Greenville
> in February 1937, that were double door, 50 foot boxcars with a round roof.
>
> The BX-15 box cars are the PS built cars from August 1952, numbered
> 63100-63399.
>
> Ken Miller
>
> > On May 2, 2020, at 4:45 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I seem to recall that at one time the VGN had a handful of fifty-foot
> round roof boxcars like N&W's B-3.  At the time of the merger they had some
> Pullman-Standard PS-1 forty-foot single door cars.
> >
> > - Ed King
>
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