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cured together with a riveted cover plate. The trucks were Andrews type rated at forty tons capacity. As delivered, the cars received simple plate steel doors. An extremely common upgrade was a corrugated steel replace- ment door that bears a striking resem- blance to the Youngstown design, al- though I have not discovered any evidence yet to confirm if they were in fact manufactured by Youngstown.


The furniture cars were produced in


both forty- and fifty-foot versions. The 1,000 forty-footers were constructed in 1923 and assigned to class FE-P. They were similar to the Bx-3/-6 boxcars but had an inside height eighteen inches taller at 10′-0″. The ends were Murphy corrugated steel, but in three panels of seven corrugations over five (in the middle) over five (in the bottom panel). The underframes differed in the use of


fishbelly center sills as opposed to the straight center sills of the boxcars. Like the boxcars, these cars rode on Andrews trucks. Finally, the door openings were ten feet, necessitating the use of a one and one-half door arrangement. The 1,000 fifty-foot cars were deliv- ered in two groups. The first group of 500 cars was delivered in 1924 and as- signed to class FE-Q; the second 500 came in 1926 and were placed in class


CHARLES WINTERS


Santa Fe boxcar No. 120913 (above) still had its KC brakes and “old” paint scheme when photographed circa 1950. By this time most of the cars had been converted to other services. ATSF Bx-3 No. 119559 (below) was still much as delivered when pho- tographed in 1947, with its KC brakes, but it did show a couple


BOB CHARLES COLLECTION, KALMBACH MEMORIAL LIBRARY, NMRA: HARRISBURG, PA; JUNE 29, 1947


improvements including the corrugated doors and second grab at the left edge of the car side. It appears that the ampersand in the reporting marks had simply been painted over as a close ex- amination revels the telltale traces of its existence showing through the fading paint on the carbody.


RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN


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