Copyright © 2006 Anthony W. Thompson. All rights reserved. Table of Contents
Prologue and Acknowledgements 5
1. Introduction 9
2. Freight Car Basics 15
3. Early Box Cars 31
4. Fruit, Ventilated and Refrigerator Cars 55
5. Huntington Common-Standard Box Cars 75
6. The Harriman Period 101
7. The Post-Harriman Period 131
8. Box Cars of the World War I Era 147
9. Return to Traditional SP Design 187
10. Box Cars of the Late 1920s 213
11. Steel Box Cars of AAR Design 247
12. Post-War Box Cars 281
13. Post-War Box Cars: Modifications 331
14. The First Specially Equipped Box Cars 359
15. Last of the 50-ton Box Cars, 1955-1961 395
16. Box Cars of the Early 1960s 417
Appendix 1: Additions to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 453
Appendix 2: Diagrams 467
Appendix 3: B-50-2, B-40-2 CS Specification 477
Bibliography 481
Index 489
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