[PRR-talk] End of automobile boxcars, beginning of autoracks

[The Mahlkovs]

Fred,

As I recall, it was right around the time you suggest that open autoracks 
were first used, perhaps a year or two earlier. But the automobile boxcars 
had ceased to be a major hauler of the traffic at least a decade earlier. 
The railroad share of finished auto traffic had declined to a single digit 
percentage before the autorack was introduced.

Gregg Mahlkov
PRRT&HS #7418


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick Ripley" <fjr68 at mac.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: [PRR-talk] End of automobile boxcars, beginning of autoracks


>
> Folks,
>
> Can anyone offer a date when TTX 85 or 89 ft autoracks would have
> started to show up on the PRR in quantity?
> Perhaps late '61 or '62?
>
> Were some of the old automobile boxcars used right up to this time?
> Or had the business, as handled in the old manner,
> pretty much dropped away, and was regained w/autoracks?
>
> Thanks, Fred R.
>
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