Limestone service boxcars

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Fri Mar 24 08:38:25 EST 2006


Gents:
I found a slide that I took of a doorless 40' er, 'Norfolk and Western', apparently in lime service. I did not project it to get numbers, assignment, etc. I will put it on the list (that is getting long) to scan and post somewhere.
Charlie Long

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>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 9:36 AM

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>Subject: Re: Limestone service boxcars

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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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