Limestone service boxcars

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There was a model of a lime loader boxcar in the modeling contest at the NWHS Convention many years ago. ...? I thought Jim Nichols built it?.... They used to be stored at Ashby VA for Riverton Corporation loading.  I have many slides of them, but would take a little time to go through my collection to find them, as my job is very busy at this particular time. They were mostly without doors, and forty foot cars still with roof walks. Basically solid roadworthy carbodies from many different classes, that had seen rough lives and were no longer suited for higher types of service.     Mason Cooper
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  John:
  I don't know of any pictures of the boxes in limestone service.  Certainly
  they were so filthy that N&W didn't send the company photographer out
  to make pictures.  Neither can I recall any particular car number.
  Probably any 40 ft. box with a 6 ft. door would qualify.  Although I can't
  recall the number, one I remember was a Wabash.  Bear in mind that
  these cars were primarily equipped with friction bearings, which are
  now outlawed for interchange service, so now they're gone.   My uncle
  was an agent for V-C Fertilizer and at Christmas one year (1970 as I
  recall), all he could do was complain about how cheap the railroad
  was to send him limestone in cars without doors.  A two-train 
  collision at Suffolk that night gave me an excuse to leave.  There were
  distributors of lime on the Pun'kin Vine that no doubt received lime
  in boxes -- Southern States at Boonies Mill for one.
                                                      Harry Bundy


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