Seems like somewhere there's a good boxcar detail clinic waiting to surface! Jeff Madden
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Don Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Dear Pieter, > We were very curious also (only the first run had this feature, we had > this area of the roof tool welded and recut with the door guide only to the > right). The only cars I have ever seen with door guides to both side used > two doors, either as an autobox, or a ventilated boxcar. I always wondered > if a 2nd door would someday be added to the cars for ventilation similar to > the ACL watermelon cars... > Don > > On Jun 12, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Pieter Roos wrote: > > > > 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 > > > >
