12-18-2010, 11:33 PM
It's tired and I'm late, but I think the dawn of much larger locomotives (larger than Atlantics and Ten-Wheelers and Prairies) spelled the end of the road for the 40-footers ... more power equals bigger cars. I think the end started in the late thirties and the 50-footers began to be the predominant freight car in the mid-to-late forties and the 40-footers were beginning to be few and far between by the mid-fifties.
Just my recollection ... without bothering to look it up.
Maybe someone else has the dates ... I'd be interested to see how far off my memory is.
Just my recollection ... without bothering to look it up.
Maybe someone else has the dates ... I'd be interested to see how far off my memory is.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln