N&W boxcars without doors

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018, at 10:09 PM NW Brent wrote:

> On a different list, Jim King commented on seeing N&W shipping lime in 40
> foot boxcars with the doors entirely removed.
>
> From his memory, they travelled in blocks headed (I think) to Norfolk
> (ports?).  Cars were usually PS-1 boxes, most still wearing steam era
> lettering.  Lime was heaped into the ends but he could see what it was as
> the cars went by.  Not a typical “dust storm” like from open-top gons.
>
> 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?
>

I'll dig through my slides and photos this weekend to see what I might turn
up. These cars were collected in Radford yard after coming off the North
Carolina Branch when the zinc and limestone mines were in operation at
Austinville until the mid '80s.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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