A rare surviving Erie 40' boxcar still in service 40 years later in its original paint. Carl made a great catch. On a personal note, back in the 1970's I used to see 40' cars still in service, but I was more interested in shooting the new shiny cars, like Railbox. I was a teenager. Who cared about those old things? The ignorance of youth!
Class: Unknown
Location: Becket, MA
Photo Date: 5-17-80
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: September 22, 2008

An Erie Lackawanna 40' boxcar still in service during the early years of Conrail.
Class: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Brian Paul Ehni     Added: March 15, 2002

A worn Erie Lackawanna 50' boxcar still in service.
Class: Unknown
Location: Becket, MA
Photo Date: 11-9-85
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: September 22, 2008

This Erie Lackawanna 50' PS-1 boxcar had been on the scrap line forever in Altoona.
Class: Unknown
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: 10-98
Photographer: Paul Tupaczewski     Added: October 28, 2002

Another Erie Lackawanna 50' boxcar sitting in the scrap line, this time in the now-long-gone Rutherford Yard on the Conrail's Harrisburg Line.
Class: Unknown
Location: Rutherford, PA
Photo Date: 1-12-89
Photographer: John Schodowski     Added: February 28, 1999

By 1998, this 40' former Erie boxcar had been sitting in the scrap line at the same location for five years.
Class: Unknown
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: 10-98
Photographer: Paul Tupaczewski     Added: October 28, 2002

A shot of the B (brake) end. The roof walk is gone but the brake wheel is still mounted high.
Class: Unknown
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: 10-98
Photographer: Paul Tupaczewski     Added: October 28, 2002

A shot of the original Erie trucks complete with journal boxes.
Class: Unknown
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: 10-98
Photographer: Paul Tupaczewski     Added: October 28, 2002

No reporting marks showing, so we "assume" NYC.
Class: Unknown
Location: Middlefield, MA
Photo Date: 11-2-84
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: September 22, 2008

50' boxcar. The roof walk is gone but still has its friction bearing trucks. The class is not visible.
Class: Unknown
Location: Akron, OH
Photo Date: 3-78
Photographer: March 13, 2004     Added: Roger Durfee

A Penn Central 50' boxcar in service.
Class: Unknown
Location: Croxton, NJ
Photo Date: 10-21-78
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: December 10, 1999

Fruehauf built the X74 50' rib-sided boxcar for Penn Central between October 1972 and February 1973. They were in series PC 167000-167999. They survived onto Conrail under the same class.
Class: X74
Location: Buffalo, NY
Photo Date: ?-76
Photographer: Sean Lamb     Added: September 1, 1999

Despatch built the 50' riveted-steel double-door boxcar in April 1956 as Lot 857B for New York Central. They were in series NYC 41500-41499. Penn Central repainted PC 172648 in December 1972. Having never been repainted into Conrail, this car was taken off the Conrail roster some time during the 1980's. It's sitting here in an abandoned scrap line.
Class: Lot 857B
Location: Terre Haute, IN
Photo Date: ?-98
Photographer: Mike Dettmers     Added: February 28, 1999

An 86' double-door auto parts boxcar on the bone yard near Rose interlocking yard office just west of the bridge.
Class: Unknown
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: 6-22-00
Photographer: Mike Rose     Added: August 9, 2001

One could still find Peoria & Eastern equipment in 1979. Witness the P&E 50' sliding door boxcar #4337 at Kent, Ohio in January 1979. The P&E was one of those little corners of the big Penn Central and even bigger Conrail system.
Class: Unknown
Location: Kent, OH
Photo Date: 1-79
Photographer: Roger Durfee     Added: July 5, 2005

A 50' reefer sitting on the Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern siding waiting to be shipped to the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society.
Class: RBLa
Location: Temple, PA
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 27, 2022

A 50' boxcar.
Class: Unknown
Location: Reading, PA
Photo Date: 1-10-89
Photographer: John Schodowski     Added: August 20, 1998

The XLj class (reclassed BR50L class under Conrail) of 50' boxcars was built in 1972 by Pullman-Standard at their Bessemer, AL, shops. It is similar to the standard PS-1 50' boxcar. These were in series RDG 20000-20199. Conrail renumbered them in series CR 231597-231795, with a couple renumbered into the CR 209970 series. Several cars, including RDG 20029, were never renumbered and survived onto NS and CSX. I caught RDG 20029 in service for Conrail on a CSX train seven years after it had been removed from the Conrail roster. This class of boxcars were delivered with Youngstown doors, but somewhere along the way a Superior door was added to this car. RDG 20029 survived long enough to be tracked down and given NYC marking for the CSX/NS acquisition of Conrail.
Class: XLj (BR50L)
Location: Belleview, FL
Photo Date: 9-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 10, 2000

Another example of an XLj (BR50L) class boxcar during the early years of Conrail, free of the wear and tear seen on RDG 20029 above.
Class: XLj (BR50L)
Location: Denville, NJ
Photo Date: 4-7-79
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998