Not
Cushioned Pullman-Standard also built a set of cars without cushioning based on the same body style as the cars drawn this month. The photo was taken on February 11, 1966, at Bes- semer, Alabama. — P-S photo, author’s collection
Catalyst Above: Pullman’s first outside post boxcar was this design, assembled under lot 8573 in late 1960. Although not to be repeated, many elements were reused for the cars presented in this month’s article . — P-S photo, au- thor’s collection
the long hose. Follow-on orders changed this, so apparently Pull- man learned a lesson of some kind. Again, pictures would sug- gest that this entire affair was reworked as cars came due for repairs, and a much-simplified arrangement was substituted. Here again, I’ve drawn the car as built.
Pullman used a special end ar- rangement designed by the rail- road for these 50-foot cars. Prede- cessor lot 8573 had flat ends with
the corrugations hidden behind the flat plates; in 1963, Pullman dispensed with the flat plates. As can be readily seen, the car had non-terminating ends (a model- ing term used to distinguish ends that do not wrap around the end corner posts to tie into the side sheets). Even while constructing the Southern cars, Pullman-Stan- dard was producing its “normal” PS-1 boxcars for other customers. These boxcars remained in ser- vice well after the Southern was
folded into the Norfolk Southern. The new railroad moved the cars over to NS series 450150–450365 and designated class BS-16A. All cars had been removed from the roster as of July 2009 (which is my latest Official Railway Equip- ment Register). Next month, we’ll take a look
at the cars produced with 10-foot plug doors. Many thanks go to George Eichelberger of the South- ern Railway Historical Associa- tion.
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