40 foot boxcar rebuild

[nachoman]

Depending on the locale, many 40' cars were still in use long after they were impractical for most applications - the lightly-built branch lines on the Canadian prairies are an example of this: with track too light to support 100 ton covered hoppers, shippers continued to use 40' boxcars well into the '80s.

Interesting. So what did they eventually do, upgrade the rail, or start shipping by other means?