What was involved in converting the auto boxes to regular boxcars?
Were there any external differences when the cars were renumbered, or
was it similar to some earlier renumberings where just the leading '9'
was dropped?
Also, in Spoor's color guide p. 48 there is a picture of 1968 rebuilt
XM-32D 39305, now filling the number slot vacated by the XA-16 boxcars.
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Ken Martin <kmartin@c...> wrote:
>
> The Q had a lot of 40' double door composite auto cars. Rather than try
> to list here the numerous types I would suggest getting the "Railway
> Prototype Cyclopedia" Vol 12 which has an excellent article on them.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/rpcyc/home.html
>
> In 1946 the Q built 500 double door all steel auto care class XA-16,
no.
> 39000-39499. In 1954 100 cars were coverted to boxcars. By 1965 all 500
> had been converted to boxcars and renumbered to 9000-9499, I don't know
> date of renumbering.
>
> Ken Martin
>
> bopking50 wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the Q had any 40' double door box/auto cars on
its
> > roster? If so, what class would these cars be, and in what number
> > sequence? TIA
> >
> > Horace
> >
>
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