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

Frederick Ripley fjr68 at mac.com
Sat Jun 21 15:08:22 EDT 2008


On Jun 21, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Jerry Britton wrote:

  "auto racks" -- moving automobiles by rail.



To look at it from the perspective of TTX equipment, the 85-ft flats  
came in '59 and '60,
so the question is how quickly were flats w/autoracks turned out in  
quantity?  I know
there were some experiments right away- I'm still guessing maybe mid- 
late '61 when a fleet started to appear?

Fred R.

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