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Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 17 USRA 50 ton sheathed box cars Trans-Flo h
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 17
Pages 1-51 USRA 50 ton single sheathed box cars and steel rebuilds The article is the second in a series of articles that cover several standard American box car designs that were built in large quantities during the first half of the 20th Century. In this article, Pat Wider covers the 25,000 single-sheathed wood and steel box cars that were built from 1918 to 1920 following a United States Railroad Administration standard design. The article also includes the steel-rebuilds of many of these cars that lasted well into the 1960s
Page 52-64 General American Trans-Flo hopper cars The author describes and illustrates the unique General American 70-ton Trans-Flo covered hopper cars owned and operated by the General American Transportation Corporation and leased to the American Stores Company, National Biscuit Company, and Miles Laboratories. These distinctive cars presaged the later General American Airslide hopper cars of the 1950s and 1960s.
Page 65-113 Railroad owned GATC Airslide 2,600 Cubic Ft Covered Hopper Cars by Ed Hawkins The author covers the General American 2,600 Cu. Ft. Airslide covered hopper cars that were ordered and owned by several railroads from 1954 to 1959. The article features many pristine builders photographs. This is the first part in a series of articles that will also include the General American-owned 2,600 Cu. Ft. Airslide cars
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