Re: [BRHSlist] Coal in boxcars

[KPMF16@a...]

I can't speak for the coal fields, but I did read an article on grain doors 
which mentioned that coal was still occasionally loaded in 40' boxcars in the 
1970s at the Port of Superior, WI on the BN. This is probably coal going to 
dealers on very light branches in northern Minn., N. Dakota, etc. If I 
recall correctly this would also have been Lake coal that had come off 
freighters upbound from the lower Lakes.

Ken Thompson

PS If I find the article I'll refer you to it.