N&W boxcars without doors

[NW Mailing List]

On 11/26/2018 7:26 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Can anyone from this group identify specific cars that were used in such service? Were other classes used this way prior to the B8's (with doors removed)? Does anyone have some photo they could share?

No, but, I can attest to the fact that they were used. Plenty of the box 
cars without doors were shipped out of the limestone plants at Buchanan, 
Va. And, plenty of limestone was lost, blown out of the car by the wind 
turbulence created rolling down the road. On late afternoons one could 
witness the oncoming cloud of dust on the "Buch Shifter" descending into 
"Ball's Hole" between Pico Crossing and Lithia!

Jimmy Lisle