T&P Rolling Stock - Boxcar 75007 "B" end

Marshall, TX

Description

Box car 75007 (this is the second 75007, by the way) started out as automobile car 70573 built by American Car and Foundry in 8/29. It was a wood single-sheath 50-foot 50-Tcar with 2 six-ft doors on each side. In 7/39 it was renumbered to 72023 after Evans Auto-Loaders were installed and the right-hand door enlarged to 9 ft. The diagram does not indicate if the car was steel-sheathed at the time, but the gain of 8000 lbs suggests that it was. In 11/53, it was again rebuilt to handle autoparts by the installation of 58 stanchions and 3 beltrails. It was also converted to a single 8-ft door (Superior; previous doors were apparently Youngstown). The brakes were changed from K to AB some time between 1936 and 1944. According to the diagrams, the trucks were never changed and the car maintained its 50-T capacity. The car was still on the roster in 1963. All the rebuilding was done in Marshall.
--Dick Smith