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Automobile boxcar

By Brian Schmidt | September 30, 2021

Automobile boxcar

Northern Pacific no. 4914 is a 50-foot, single-sheathed, double-door car built in the late 1930s and shown here in 1940. Note the Dreadnaught end door. Jay Williams collection

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