N&W boxcars without doors

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Grain door boards were temporary in nature and used as you said to reduce grain spilling out th through the standard sliding boxcar doorways,  but the doors of said cars were still in place on the cars. I don't know for certain if the sliding doors on boxcar loads of grain were left open in transit or not, but I suspect that they might have been closed.

Brent
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Dr. J. Brent Greer
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In the summer of 1954 I was employed as a laborer on the N&W's weed spray train, and we ran out of chemical for a day or two, so we could not do any spraying until a delayed tank car of chemical showed up.  To keep us occupied while we waited for the carload of chemical, we were put to work stacking "grain doors" in the Roanoke Roadway Material (about the most strenuous physical work that I ever did).  These wooden grain doors were intended to be added across the inside of a box car's door opening as the level of grain increased in the box car during loading, but I do not remember (or maybe never knew) whether the box cars had sliding doors also, meaning that the grain doors were there to prevent leaking that would have occurred with the sliding doors alone, or whether the grain doors were used without sliding doors.  I suspect the former.  Anybody know?

Gordon Hamilton

On 11/28/2018 11:20 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

Those 40'ers were long used in newsprint service, too.

WJPowers

On 11/28/2018 10:09 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:




Was this also practiced during the steam era?

The door-less box cars didn't make their appearance until the mid-1960s.
The so-called standard box car had been 40 ft. in length with 6 ft. doors -
but as time went by, it didn't meet the requirements of some shippers.   There
were instances where  tow motors wouldn't clear the six ft. doors.  Then too,
many-a-box car would be guided to the rip track because the doors wouldn't open.
So as plug-door boxes and hy-cube cars entered the scene,  the forty-footers
ended their career hauling low-revenue limestone on friction-bearing trucks.
                                                                              Harry Bundy



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