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A former merchandise boxcar pressed into maintenance of way service, which is why it has a 5-digit number. The car is sitting in the scrap line. Location: Roanoke, VA 6-2-01 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 76177 Joe Shaw (156K) |
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This 50' Pullman Standard boxcar with a 10' door was originally painted for Peoria & Easter, a subsidiary of the New York Central. Location: Unknown Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 151466 Tom Haag (36K) |
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From 1977 until the late 1990s this boxcar sat at a scrap dealer. It remains an important car because it was repainted in a very early Conrail scheme in June 1976, two months after Conrail formed. As a result it lacks the large logo and is painted in Penn Central green. As you can see, it never wore the PC logo. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Sinking Spring, PA 5-6-90 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 164528 968B John Schodowski (53K) |
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50' former PRR double door boxcar. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Allentown, PA 1996 Series: CR 213407-213416 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 213416 X56 Lon Godshall (59K) |
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The large wheels on the side of the car are Hennessy Slidewell power assists. Holidaysburg equipped a number of cars with these devices to help workers open difficult doors instead of prodding them open with forklifts. Forklifts had been damaging too many boxcar doors. Location: Wyomissing, PA 6-18-05 Photo Online: December 23, 2005 |
 CR 213768 X56A Mark MacDougall (111K) |
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Car repainted Buffalo, NY 6-87. More modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Altoona, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 216859 Lon Godshall (38K) |
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Ever have one of those days? The crew switching behind the General Motors Cadillac Fleetwood plant in Detroit did when they backed this 60' autoparts boxcar onto a dirt mound. Location: Detroit, MI 6-85 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 218541 John Brown (99K) |
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Another view of the boxcar on the mound. At least it gives us a good look at the end details. The car was originally an NYC car built in 1965. Location: Detroit, MI 6-85 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 218541 John Brown (89K) |
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The third and final photo in the series of a switching mishap. Most of these car were repainted Conrail by the Reading, PA shops. Location: Detroit, MI 6-85 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 218541 John Brown (84K) |
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60' autoparts boxcar with Superior and Youngstown doors. Repainted into Quality scheme. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Allentown, PA 1998 Series: CR 219932-219977 Models: None available Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 219964 X63 Lon Godshall (50K) |
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Sitting at Rose storage yard. Location: Altoona, PA 5-15-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 220308 X59 Sean McDonnell (67K) |
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Taken at Rose Storage Yard. Location: Altoona, PA 5-15-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 220435 Sean McDonnell (198K) |
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Former PRR 60' double door boxcars (PRR series: 90265-90280). Repainted Quality scheme. Lon mentions that the difference between the X59A and the X59 is that the latter has plug doors. More modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Altoona, PA 1998 Series: CR 220467-270571 Models: None that I know of. Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 220551 X59A Lon Godshall (45K) |
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Former Penn Central 60' double-door boxcar with its old logo and reporting marks painted out with Conrail markings, plus a nasty weathering job. Lon Godshall recommends using the Con-Cor 60' boxcar for HO. We're still working on other scales. Location: Altoona, PA 6-22-00 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 220901 X62B Mike Rose (72K) |
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We believe this is a rebuilt 60' extended height boxcar, though we have little information on the class. Since it's difficult to model, we won't be devoting much space to it. Location: Decature, IL 10-28-99 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 221163 B62C Mike Rose (63K) |
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We believe this is a rebuilt 60' extended height boxcar, though we have little information on the class. Since it's difficult to model, we won't be devoting much space to it. Location: Alttoona, PA 5-14-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 221294 B62C Sean McDonnell (215K) |
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From 1987 to 1990, Hollidaysburg rebuilt 280 X62B 60-foot auto parts boxcars into Plate F excess height cars. Location: Bellevue, OH 2002 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 221315 B62C Chris Crook (74K) |
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A difficult to model car. Location: Berea, OH 10-10-04 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 221392 B62D Sean McDonnell (55K) |
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Location: Conneaut, OH 1-22-06 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 221511 B62D Dave Trenn (250K) |
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This class of boxcar was rebuilt from the B62C above and is also difficult to model in any scale. Location: Decatur, IL 10-28-99 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 221522 B62D Mike Rose (55K) |
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Yet another version of the rebuilt 60' extended height boxcars that are difficult to model. Note the interesting plating on this car. Location: Decatur, IL 10-28-99 Photo Online:August 9, 2001 |
 CR 221764 B62F Mike Rose (59K) |
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Rebuilt into an extended height car. Once again, this car is difficult to model. Location: Norristown, PA 8-12-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 221822 B62E Sean McDonnell (116K) |
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Former PRR 110815 built in 6-66 but Conrail rebuilt it 6-90 into an extended height car. Once again, this car is difficult to model due to the odd nature of the plating and doors. Dennis caught it fresh out of the paint shops in the Quality scheme. Location: Holidaysburg, PA 5-3-98 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 221837 B62E Dennis Sautters (55K) |
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Former Southern Railway 70-ton boxcars built in 1964 by Pullman-Standard. Originally equipped with roofwalk and full-height ladders. Roofwalk has been removed and ladders/brake wheel lowered. SOU owned few Plate C boxcars, such as this. Conrail simply painted out SOU markings, restenciled them with CR marks and class. These cars are recent acquisitions. No models of this class are available in any scale. Location: Reading, PA 7-98 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 222611 BS-29 Lon Godshall (50K) |
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An interesting waffle-sided car. Location: Rankin, PA 2-6-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 222702 Sean McDonnell (256K) |
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Car is equipped with interior rub rails. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Unknown Series: CR 222873-223000 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 222955 B63D Stephen J. Agostini Coll (66K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Conneaut, OH 1-22-06 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 223009 B63A Dave Trenn (257K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Berea, OH 10-10-04 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 223010 B63A Sean McDonnell (122K) |
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An extended height car. Location: Braddock, PA 11-21-04 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 223030 Sean McDonnell (133K) |
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Repainted in Quality. Location: Berea, OH 10-10-04 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 223301 Sean McDonnell (117K) |
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Not sure what class this is or its purpose. It might be a class B62G? Location: Unknown Photo Online: January 31, 2006 |
 CR 223670 Chris Crook (51K) |
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A large extended height car. Location: Leetsdale, PA 9-18-04 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 230527 BW84A Sean McDonnell (146K) |
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A repainted RDG 50' boxcar class XLj (RDG series: 20000-20199). More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Unknown Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 231749 Reed Estabrook (61K) |
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Restenciled RDG 50' boxcar class XLj (RDG series: 20000-20199). Built 11-72. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Fogelsville, PA 1998 Series: CR 231597-231795 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 231789 Lon Godshall (67K) |
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Great overhead shot of the rusty roofs. Location: Altoona, PA 5-15-05 Photo Online: May 5, 2006 |
 CR 237008 Sean McDonnell (200K) |
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In the late 1960s, Erie Lackawanna ordered 143 86' Hi-Cube boxcars from Greenville, placing them in EL series 92100-92242. Conrail inherited these cars and merged them in with Penn Central's large fleet of Hi-Cube's. Location: Ingleside, WV 9-01 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 237372 BE83B Joe Shaw (151K) |
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86' Pullman-Standard 4-door auto parts boxcar outside the Macedonia Car Shops. For HO modeling the Walthers PS 86' Hi-Cube 4-Door boxcar is a replica of X60, though the Athearn model is an adequate stand-in for X60 subclasses built by Thrall or Greenville. The Con-Cor 86' Hi-Cube might work for N scale, though it will only be a close match. Location: Macedonia, OH 8-2-89 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 237718 X60 Arnie Morscher (71K) |
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A former EL Greenville Hi-Cube repainted into the Quality scheme. Location: Alliance, OH 2004 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 238065 BE83B Chris Crook (81K) |
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A former 50' Erie boxcar built by Pullman Standard that was painted into this Conrail scheme in 1978. Location: Pitcairn, PA 1988 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 267906 Tom Haag (30K) |
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Former PRR double-door boxcars (PRR series: 88251-88500). Roofwalks have been removed. Repainted into Conrail scheme in Buffalo, NY on 2-88. Though there are no models available for this class in HO, N scale modelers could use the inexpensive Life-Like 50' boxcar, though the model's doors are not the same, the sill needs to be replaced with styrene strip, and the foot rungs could be replaced. Location: Pottstown, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 270193 X56 Lon Godshall (48K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar devoted to autoparts service. Location: Decatur, IL 10-28-99 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 275135 X62A Mike Rose (55K) |
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A Conrail stenciled PC boxcar. It looks like an X62A, but with a different door. Location: Unknown 2001 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 275391 Joe Shaw (132K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Restenciled PC 60' boxcar (PC 275425). Location: Allentown, PA 1997 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 275425 X62A Lon Godshall (65K) |
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Former PC car (PC series: 278045-278174). Built by Berwick Forge & Fabrication (BFF) 2-3/73. Designed for hauling autopart between plants. Original large CR logo. Was repainted in Buffalo, NY 5-84. Location: Wyomissing, PA 9-96 Series: CR 216840-216877 HO Models: Con-Cor 60' Autoparts boxcar. N Models: Unknown Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 276850 X77 Bob Waller (49K) |
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Another of th 450 B60C rebuilt boxcars. Location: Selkirk, NY 7-20-00 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 277903 B60C Reed Estabrook (51K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Conway, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 278516 BE60B Lon Godshall (87K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar devoted to autoparts service. Location: Wyomissing, PA 10-96 Series: CR 278729-278999 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 278849 X64 Bob Waller (100K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar devoted to autoparts service. Location: Altoona, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 279011 143B Lon Godshall (45K) |
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Former RDG class XLL 60' boxcars (RDG series: 19000-19049). Repainted into the Conrail scheme and numbering 8-84. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Altoona, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 279734 BR62A Lon Godshall (45K) |
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Pullman-Standard 60' door-and-a-half boxcar originally built in 1974 for the PC as PC 220225-220295 and PC 281400-281635. On these cars, Conrail kept the same numbering system as PC. The cars rode on 100-ton trucks. Location: Allentown, PA 8-88 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 281501 X82 Reed Estabrook (44K) |
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By the end of the 1980s all of the PC cars had been repainted in Conrail oxide, though they kept the original PC numbers. The doors had an opening of 16 feet. Location: Selkirk, NY. Series: CR 281400-281635 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 281569 X82 Leo Landry (28K) Doug Trueblood Coll |
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Former 60' PC 220835 repainted in Conrail Quality. More modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Reading, PA 6-18-98 Series: CR 283000-283029 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 283000 X66A John Schodowski (47K) |
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Former 60' boxcar PC 220845. Repainted Quality scheme 11-88. More modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Allentown, PA 1998 Series: CR 283000-283029 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 283009 X66A Lon Godshall (62K) |
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More modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Sandpoint, ID 5-99 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 283824 863D Bill Whitfield (81K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Columbus, OH 2004 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 294753 Chris Crook (59K) |
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86' Pullman-Standard 4-door auto parts boxcar outside the Macedonia Car Shops. For HO modeling the Walthers PS 86' Hi-Cube 4-Door boxcar is a replica of this class; do not us the Athearn model, which does not represent any one prototype. The Con-Cor 86' Hi-Cube might work for N scale, though it will only be a close match. Location: Macedonia, OH 5-6-90 Series: CR 295440-295552 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 295541 X60P Arnie Morscher (93K) |
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Most of these refeers were retired by 1990. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Reading, PA 1-10-98 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 359008 John Schodowski (66K) |
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Special one-of-a-kind reefer fitted with a satellite
that keeps track of the car's temperature. Decals by Microscale. Matches the HO Con-Cor kit but has short ladders and lowered brakewheel. Conrail retired the car and donated it the Conrail Technical Society, where it sits at the Danbury Rail Museum storing society material. Location: Unknown Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 359020 John Durant (43K) |
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Another shot of the reefer. Location: Ontario, CA 8-91 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 359020 Chris Butts (87K) |
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Taken back in 1981, the 359034 is in a fresh paint of Conrail yellow and brown. The built date on the car is 12-67, though there are no real class markings, only an RPL. Location: Tucson, AZ 10-81 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 359034 Bill Whitfield (75K) |
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I don't know how this happened, but we have photos of two sequential cars in a class! Anyway, these are former EL boxcars. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class. Location: Selkirk, NY (CP-SK) 10-97 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 360271 BE55C Mike Rose (83K) |
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Former EL boxcars. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Unknown 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 360272 BE55C Lon Godshall (62K) |
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More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Unknown Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 360484 133B Mike Rose (66K) |
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Insulated boxcar, former LV 7172. Repainted 6-81. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Fogelsville, PA 1998 Series: CR 360704-360753 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 360736 BL55B Lon Godshall (45K) |
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I believe these were former 50' NYC boxcars. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: East Cambridge, MA 4-30-95 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 361081 935B Dave Santos (68K) |
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An Evans double-door boxcar Conrail purchased second-hand. In both HO and N scale Atlas' 53' Evans Double Plug-Door boxcar is an exact match, though they do not provide it in the Conrail scheme. Location: West Falls, PA 7-98 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 368600 Robert Palmer (45K) |
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Another Evans 50' boxcar but painted in a blue scheme. Location: Sayre, PA 3-01 Photo Online:October 28, 2002 |
 CR 368611 Mike Collins (64K) |
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Here we see one of the Evans totally repainted into fresh Conrail paint instead of just a stencil job. Location: Sayre. PA 9-00 Photo Online:October 28, 2002 |
 CR 368615 Tom Honnan (65K) |
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These are 69'-6" insulated boxcars built by Fruit Grower's Express in Alexandria, Virginia in 1977. They were the only insulated boxcars built for Conrail, the rest being inherited from predecessors or purchased second-hand. Nearly every car is painted in the large Conrail logo. Our rolling stock guru, Lon Godshall, has only seen one repainted in the newer small logo. The cars are equipped with a massive 14' single plug door, which makes the Eel River Models "beer car" model unusable. Cars saw assigned service, with some even being used in beer service. 376072 had been repainted at Buffalo in December 1983. Location: Chapman Yard, PA 2-16-97 Series: CR 376001-376190 Photo Online: October 22, 1998 |
 CR 376072 B65A Lon Godshall (71K) |
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A typical B65A, but notice the end reporting marks have been painted over. Location: Alliance, OH 2004 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 376148 B65A Chris Crook (104K) |
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See 376072 above for details about this class of insulated boxcars. Location: Galesburg, IL 10-26-99 Photo Online:September 3, 2001 |
 CR 376168 B65A Mike Rose (66K) |
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Insulated boxcar. Built Built 11-68. Former HLMX 8901. More prototype and modeling information is needed about this class of boxcar. Location: Altoona, PA 1998 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 CR 377005 Lon Godshall (60K) |
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These cars were not sold to Kellogg's by Conrail. They were purchased new from Thrall by Kellogg's in 1973 and then leased to PC for exclusive use by Kellogg's. When PC decided to go bankrupt, Kellogg's withdrew the lease and reclaimed the cars because they feared that they would loose the use of them in the bankruptcy of PC. Rail Yard Models makes a cast resin HO model of these cars with custom printed decals to make either the Penn Central scheme or the later KELX "paint out". RYM has more model and prototype photos on their website. Thanks to Denis Blake for the info. Location: Reading, PA 6-30-98 Photo Revised: July 5, 2005 |
 KELX 281329 X79 John Schodowski (26K) |
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