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Subject: [BRHSlist] re: 1898 Powder Cars
From: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:50:12 -0500
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Marshall suggested, logically, that what might have made a powder car was 
the use of steel sheathing to prevent sparks from starting car on fire as 
was often the case with all wood cars.
The OER entry has no specs except 28' with 30 ton capy - same as rest of 
series of box cars from 1 to lower 4000's. ARe the only cars without specs 
for whatever reason.  As capy is same as the others, I assume little if any 
steel added as would reduce capy - somewhere maybe one is lurking in 
background of a photo of an early Q loco.  Too bad it wasn't til relatively 
recent times that railfans took photos of something other than locos!


Gerald A. Edgar

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Garner, IA 50438-1404

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