Hi Matt; An excellent question! The extended door track is a common feature of all single sheathed boxcars built under U.S.R.A. auspices. In reading various articles on these cars, none have touched on why that feature was incorporated in the design. I might guess that planning was to allow for either doors opening to the right or to the left, as on the PRR X23 and LV double sheathed cars of a few years earlier, but that is just a guess on my part. None of the production U.S.R.A. cars had a left opening door, or any other door feature that I can see accounting for the longer upper door track.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 6/12/12, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Pieter, > Just curious but why does the upper door guide extend to the > left but not the lower guide? > > Thanks, > Matt Hogan > > --- In [email protected], > Pieter Roos <pieter_roos@...> wrote: > > > > I've also attached a photo of an SHS U.S.R.A. > boxcar... > > Pieter E. Roos ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
