Jim,
I'm not sure either, but your 1960's date seems correct enough. The
note I'll add here is that when RR's started enclosing the racks, much of the
work was done at a place called Paragon Steel in Novi, MI. This was on the
PM/C&O 's Toledo to Flint line about 6 miles from my parents house where I used
to ride my bike (Some things never change!) to railfan. It was about two miles
from Ford's Wixom Rd. Assembly Plant, which I think is now closed.
Jamie Bothwell
Getting on his bike to ride to work in
Bethlehem, PA
On Apr 4, 2013, at 8:23 PM, raisinone <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not enough of a freight car historian to know when what we might call the
> "modern" version of auto racks started on the rails – my guess is sometime in
> the 60's.
