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Re: BoxCar - v2
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:05:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia writes:
> They are indeed catwalks, though they're not single rails. They're boards.
> I believe they disappeared around 1960 or so. At the least, modern boxcars
> don't have them.
Indeed. Brakemen are discouraged, if not forbidden, from walking on the
roofs of cars nowadays. Too dangerous.
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| They are indeed catwalks, though they're not single rails. They're boards. I believe they disappeared around 1960 or so. At the least, modern boxcars don't have them. -Stefan- (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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