> It said "Keep off roof, no Running Board."
> That ended the discussion.
> Tom Hawley

The Official NYC book "Diagrams, Dimensions & Classification of Freight Cars" 
has a dimension of length shown like this:

"42'3" over running boards"

This terminology is repeated for each different boxcar.  

Must be true that "roofwalks" is a modeling invention -- sort of like 
"turnouts".

Cheers...Ed L.



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