PRR Wood Boxcar FREE--ACT NOW!!!!

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2000 12:05 am

Ex-PRR wooden box car, type X23, built 1903, in amazingly good condition for its age, need a new home NOW. This car is sitting at the south end of Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa.

Photos and info at the link below. Free of charge; you must haul it away. Both flatcars and trailers can get to it.

PRR X23 Enola

LNER4472@gateway.net

Mike Shirk · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2000 5:34 am

I forwarded your link to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Maybe they might be interested. Perhaps Kurt Bell could pass along the good word to management.<p>Mike Shirk<br>

Tom · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2000 8:37 am

Restored as a M of W car is would be very important as an interpretive display to tell visitors what life was like for 1920's-1950's maintenance of way crews. This is an essential part of the railroading story, but because it is also the least glamorous, it is often overshadowed by locomotives in museum collections. I hope that the RMPA or the Altoona Railroader's Museum will seize this important and rare, opportunity. It would be worth it.

Tom

A link to the X23 diagram on prr.railfan.net

http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=x23.gif&sel=all&sz=sm&fr=

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 2:56 pm

Hello all,

What was the ultimate disposition of this car?

Tom Cornillie

Mr. Ed · **Posted:** Tue May 30, 2006 1:17 pm

If it was an NX-23, not an X-23, it might be the one we have at our facility. You can see it at The Railfan Network. Go to Tourist Museums and Railways, click on that again and go to Pemberton Historic Trust.

Later!
Mr. Ed

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Tue May 30, 2006 1:30 pm

Dear Ed,

That is not the car. The Car in Enola was in its last PRR company service yellow paint.

Tom Cornillie

This link should work to your discussion board:
http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=AllTourist;action=display;num=1130001650

Mr. Ed · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 1:52 pm

Very cool link! Thanks!

Later!
Mr. Ed

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:11 am

Any word on what happened to PRR 499327 at Enola Yard? Is it still there?

Tom Cornillie

This thread also discusses the car:
http://rypn.sunserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1431

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:26 am

I do not know about the one at Enola, but one of these cars in MOW configuration is in the collection at IRM. In the last month we have begun 'manufacturing' new siding in our own shop.

Bob Kutella

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:57 pm

Dear Bob,

Do you know the chain of ownership between the car leaving the PRR and arriving at IRM? In particular, do you know where the SN 9328 reporting marks and number originated from. As shown in this photo: http://www.irm.org/gallery/PRR499320/aae

Tom Cornillie

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:40 pm

I believe that after PRR the car was owned by the Waterfront Electric Railway Museum in Toledo Ohio. They applied the Silica Northern reporting marks and I do not think that was an incorporated entity or any sort of interchange carrier. The Waterfront descendant, Grand Rapids Electric Railway (of OHIO) donated the car to IRM.

The car we have is configured as a TOOL CAR, perhaps one of five or so options in a PRR camp train.

Bob Kutella

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:59 pm

Quote:

I believe that after PRR the car was owned by the Waterfront Electric Railway Museum in Toledo Ohio. They applied the Silica Northern reporting marks and I do not think that was an incorporated entity or any sort of interchange carrier. The Waterfornt descendant, Grand Rapids Electric Railway (of OHIO) donated the car to IRM.

That makes sense - as I knew this car was associated with the Toledo effort - but SN was registered to the Sacremento Northern.

Tom Cornillie

(Still interested in the disposition of the Enola X-23)

B. Allan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:48 am

Tom

When the Waterfront Electric group was given the trackage of the Toledo Angola & Western Railway, the car was painted up for the Silica Northern.
The SN was a branch off the TA&W at Silica, Ohio that ran North to an interchange with the Toledo and Western Railroad (an interurban line), the whole line was under 2 miles long and was always operated by the TA&W it never owned any equipment.

B Allan