08-14-2017, 09:58 AM
Reinhard, it looks as if that gondola next to the 9504 has been carrying hot steel. At the steel plant where I worked, all in-plant (non-interchange) cars used for carrying hot ingots, slabs, or coils had the car numbers painted in an area below the level of the car's floor, as any paint above that would have been burned off.
Since the cars never left the premises, no other lettering was required, and that included dimensional data: whatever would fit in a gondola became its rated capacity, and many times I saw what would have been considered 70 ton cars (on any common carrier road) with loads approaching or exceeding 200 tons.
Wayne
Since the cars never left the premises, no other lettering was required, and that included dimensional data: whatever would fit in a gondola became its rated capacity, and many times I saw what would have been considered 70 ton cars (on any common carrier road) with loads approaching or exceeding 200 tons.
Wayne