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Bob:
Here’s a 36′ truss rod IM boxcar having grain doors applied at an elevator in Nebraska. The dimensional data is under the car number on the left side and the capacity is on the right side which was later swapped by the ARA and standardized for the industry. This is a scan off a cabinet photo I have and I scanned at 1,200 dpi to try and get all the details; Unfortunately this is as clear as the image got. If you click on the image you’ll get a larger one and click again it gets larger still. Perhaps you can make out the smaller stenciling. I can read “post no advertisements” above the car number on the right and the car number on the door with ‘air brakes’ but the the rest is too soft of a focus to make out. There’s no date on the front or back but I assume the preWW1 era. Interesting door locking appliance on the right side of the door vs the left also no stirrup or hand holds on the left side which I’d never noticed before.
Charlie
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