40′ end door single sheathed box

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  • July 8, 2020 at 5:22 pm #6076
    princessclyne69
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    Here’s something I didn’t know existed, or maybe I’ve just forgotten.

    https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc221689/?q=train

    This from RealSTMFC. dated August 9, 1955, most likely on the Santa Fe south of OKC.

    I did a cursory search of the 1951 freight car diagram book and didn’t find this car. Perhaps the end doors were permanently closed and so not noted on the diagram, but that would be unusual.

    Ron Merrick

    July 8, 2020 at 11:33 pm #9800
    peggyrothschild
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    Ron
    Neat find; obviously a double door car converted to a single door configuration. I agree the end doors were probably welded shut.

    July 9, 2020 at 1:24 am #9802
    princessclyne69
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    Ed Hawkins provided a very detailed history of these cars on the STMFC site.

    For those that don’t have access to that site, these cars started life as double door automobile cars with end doors, 1929. Most were rebuilt in 1941, with a few more in 1942 and 1945-46, at DeSoto. They were converted to single 6′ door, and the auxiliary door opening was filled with siding and a new Howe truss brace added, which was asymmetrical relative to the others due to the width of its span. This is visible on the wreck photo. What’s not visible is that the original vertical shaft handbrake was replaced with a Universal power handbrake, along with conversion to AB brake gear, both of which upgrades were normal for MP cars during this period. The end door was sealed closed and new end lining applied. The number series of these cars, as rebuilt, was 45251-45494.

    There were at least two other series of cars that had similar rebuilding.

    Ron Merrick

    July 9, 2020 at 1:31 am #9803
    princessclyne69
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    And, here is a very similar car to the ones we’re discussing, in its original appearance and from the B end.

    https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/52975

    Also posted on RealSTMFC today.

    RG7

    December 9, 2020 at 3:39 pm #10034
    chastity_cumming
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    The MP car has a a radial roof: the I-GH a pitched one

    December 10, 2020 at 1:09 am #10036
    peggyrothschild
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    Jerry
    The image of the IGN car posted has a radial roof. All the post 1926 IGN diagrams of boxcars show radial roofs as well.

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