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Identifying Rolling Stock

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I can't distinguish between a new and an old boxcar. Can anyone recommend some references for rolling stock? Are there any books that list car builders, models, numbers and dates produced, and various other details similar to what you find in a locomotive spotter's guide.

Thanks,

Sean

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Sean Morrell
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Small (under 50'), catwalk on top, brake wheel old.

Cables under body very old. Wood. Very old....

Cheap and bloated modern. Bright colors and graphitti.....

Jim Stewart

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Jim Stewart

[Smart Arse Mode]

Just look at them. If they're big and modern looking, then they are newer than an older, and generally smaller one. :-)

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Roger T.

Sean=A0Morrell wrote: I can't distinguish between a new and an old boxcar. Can anyone recommend some references for rolling stock?

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Bill

The first thing to look for is the ladders. If they are mostly short, it's modern. If all four ladders - one on each end and one on each side - reach the roofwalk, it's pre-1970. Fifty foot or shorter can be old - some 50' are new. Wood boxcars are old. "Real railroad" names - Great Northern, Southern, Maine Central, Union Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, Milwaukee Road, M-K-T, Northern Pacific, etc -are old. CSX, MOST Norfolk Southern, Conrail (now gone) Burlington Northern, Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, Montana Rail Link - new. Hope this helps. Gene ABV61-1043.001.HCB

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STEAM GENE

No, mech ani cal ingin ears....

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Jim Stewart

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