Re: [cpsig] Ice breaker box cars
- From: "Roger Traviss" <rogertra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:41:53 -0800
Loosely speaking these were box cars fitted with metal bars on the roof
roughly in the same profile as the dome profile on the Canadian's domes.
These box cars would be sent ahead and would knock down any icicles or
other
obstructions that would otherwise hit the domes themselves and possibly do
damage.
I thought we agreed that these cars were not introduced until after the
autoracks came into service?
Or were they in use in the 1950s and early 1960s?
Roger Traviss
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