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Re: BoxCar - v2
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
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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  Re: BoxCar - v2
 
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- (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)

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