Lumber doors on boxcars?

[MasonJar]

Some lumber Schooners had ( doors ), bow ports, for loading long planks, that were closed and caulked, before leaving port. One of these was the Maine-built four mast Schooner Anna R. Heidritter, launched in 1903. She was driven aground in a storm March 3rd 1942.

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Here's one in 1872 being loaded at Quebec City. The squared timber is likely white pine from the Algonquin area,a nd would have been floated all the way to Quebec via Ottawa. Very likely destined for England.

Andrew