Equipping 50 box cars with a "2nd deck steel floor" & modifying box
cars for "deck lid loading" for Ford Motor Co. were probably
unrelated but could gave been for the same purpose. Various
suppliers provided RR's with devices to better cushion loads, secure
them, provide 2nd floors, etc - these were usually after market
devices although in some cases were installed by the car builder,
whether it was a commercial car builder or a RR shop like Havelock.
Car Builders' Cyclopedias have illustrated ads showing Evans, Stein,
Sparton "Tri-Belt" & Pullman Std as a few of the suppliers of devices
to create muiltiple decks, compartments, load tie downs, etc.
The "deck lid" term, at least in early 50's, may have meant "trunk
lids" as the latter is the more typical American term. (Although the
famous Ford Mustangs in the mid-60's gave us the popular description
of a sporty car: "long hood, short deck").
As such interior box car modifications, at least in this case, were
not permanent, the designation would still be an XM rather than the
XMA category then in use. Gerald
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