Outside braced wood boxcar on ebay

tomgears · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:03 am

Recent discussion about wood freight cars made me think I should post this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Wood-Railro ... 3106wt_741

bbunge · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:57 pm

It is interesting that the Illinois Merci boxcar is missing:

http://mercitrain.org/Illinois/

judging by the markings as described in the listing. It would be interesting to see if the other cars are marked as such.

Ah, on 2nd look, the framing and supports don't match up to a photo of the Merci cars at all.

Bob

Trainlawyer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:32 pm

This is strictly a guess but it may be a USA QM "European Service" car which was never shipped and later sold as surplus.

GME

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3011

Didn't we talk about this one on RPYN before? Those photos look awfully familiar...

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:25 pm

Bob,

I think we talked about a smiliar, yet different USATC boxcar. It was a longer, double truck car built for the USATC after World War II for overseas service. It too was a "knock down" car that could be configured in several different ways.

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:06 pm

I think we talked about this very same 'car' (container? box?), and the discussion then turned to the USATC cars, which are not the same. Its been listed on E-bay before. If you compare the framing to photos of the Merci Train "forty and eight" cars, they are not the same either. My best guess is some sort of early container.

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3011

Guess I should have simply used the site search and saved some time...

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31108

Unless there are a couple of these floating around Wisconsin, I think it's the same one.

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:15 pm

Sorry, I was thinking of the steel outside braced car that was the subject of an RYPN thread a few months ago. Good catch Bob.