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