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April/29, this box, I’m sure, would have been able to relate a few stories about cold weather railroading.
It appears to be riding on an old style 2 level truck. The idea being, the more and softer springs you can stuff in there, the better the ride. It fits with the BLT date of the box, as 2 level trucks came into being in the mid 1920′s.
Thanks for that information on the trucks and springs.
Some more trivia
Note the yellow disc with the black D on the side of the car.
In June 1962 CN introduced the 9” diameter yellow disc with the grade letter in black for the grading of boxcars:
• A – high class commodities such as sugar, flour
• B – general merchandise
• C – grain and low class commodities
• D – rough freight (mine products, pulpwood, ties, pipe, machinery, scrap iron and metal
• X – assigned service for special cargos
• Y – newsprint
This was to supplement the door color coding scheme that was introduced in 1959.
• Yellow – newsprint
• Green – lumber
• Orange – express
• Blue – refrigerated cars for dressed meat service
• Red – refrigerated cars for fresh produce service
The colored doors were no longer standard after 1990.
Nice.
A lot of these wooden cars in MofW service through to the early 80′s along with re-assigned heavy weight passenger equipment – lots of modeling possibilites…
sdfourty
I remember rolling many gas and oil drums up and down on two planks from those wooden box cars.