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Mr. Hamilton, <br>
<br>
You and your comrades have been so helpful with information. This
sketch is a great piece of inspiration for our project. I will let
you know how our “simulation” turns out. We are trying to produce a
portion of a film, from the interior perspective, of Stonewall Jackson’s
men arriving in Lynchburg, VA to defend the City by way of the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad. <br>
<br>
Again, I thank you for your help.<br>
<br>
DWD<br>
<br>
To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br>
Subject: Re: 1860's Boxcar<br>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:02 -0400<br>
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org><br><br>
Daniel,<br>
<br>
I'll be pleasantly surprised if anyone can come up with a photo of the
interior of a 1860's box car. Matthew Brady took pictures during
the Civil War that showed freight cars, however. As a poor substitute to
a photograph, I am enclosing a scan of a drawing of a 1864 box car from
John H. White, Jr's <i>The American Railroad Freight Car</i>. Each
view is a half section, meaning that half of each elevation view shows
the exterior and the other half shows the interior. The plan view shows
the roof, the floor and the underframe.<br>
<br>
A freight car of that era would have had no automatic couplers, no air
brakes and would have had a wooden body and a mostly wood
underframe. All of which bode against any of those cars surviving
much into the Twentieth Century.<br>
<br>
Gordon Hamilton<br>
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Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:48 PM<br>
Subject: Fw: 1860's Boxcar<br>
Would anyone be able to send me some photograph’s of what the inside of
an 1860's Boxcar might look like?<br>
Do you have any boxcar’s from around this period at VMT? Would you
be willing to send me a couple of photographs of the exterior?<br>
Daniel
Dixon
<br>
Vice President<br>
C.L. Lewis & Company, Inc.<br>
P.O. Box 10728<br>
Lynchburg, VA. 24506<br>
Office: 434-845-3468 <br>
Fax: 434-845-4102<br>
<ddixon@cllewis.com><br>
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