Odd Unit

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Now that is a piece of railroad history not often encountered. Many thanks
for the response.
Mike

On Sunday, April 1, 2012, NW Mailing List wrote:


> Mike: It's a camp car which was converted from a box car (circa 1947).

> Windows on the back side appear to have been removed and openings boarded

> over by new siding. See page 118 in French's *Williamson Terminal* for a

> somewhat similar car.

>

> Jim Nichols

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> I am about wrapped up on my article about displayed cabooses in this area

> but have hit a "puzzlement". Should the item along the Virginia Creeper

> Trail in Taylors Valley be called a "caboose"? It looks like an ex-boxcar

> or a camp car to my eye. Recent pix attached. Any history on it would be

> helpful.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Mike Pierry, Jr.

>

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