Bill
Thanks for posting the photo - these
cars had an interesting life.
107090 was originally built in 1910 by
Haskell & Barker as an automobile car class XA-4, part of series
106600-107099. They had a 10 foot sliding door each side with a moveable
door post and a 2' x 2' 10" lumber door at the ends. Between 1916 and
1923, these cars were rebuilt into XM-15 box cars with a sliding door each side
of 5' 5½"
width, similar to the rest of the XM-15's (107100-108599) that had been
built in 1910. In 1926, 300 XM-15's were rebuilt at Aurora with steel centre
sills and ends, and were renumbered to 121000-121299 as class
XM-27.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 9:30
AM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Old Box Car
A friend sent me a link to some photos from The Pennsylvania
State Archives of the Buffalo & Susquehanna. Among them, I found this view
of a freight house in Wellsville, NY with CB&Q box car no. 107090 standing
at the dock. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing this
view.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
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