| Prologue and Acknowledgements | 5
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| 1. Introduction | 9
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| 2. Freight Car Basics | 15
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| BOX CARS |
| 3. Early Box Cars | 31
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| 4. Fruit, Ventilated and Refrigerator Cars | 55
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| 5. Huntington Common-Standard Box Cars | 75
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| 6. The Harriman Period | 101
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| 7. The Post-Harriman Period | 131
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| 8. Box Cars of the World War I Era | 147
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| 9. Return to Traditional SP Design | 187
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| 10. Box Cars of the Late 1920s | 213
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| 11. Steel Box Cars of AAR Design | 247
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| 12. Post-War Box Cars | 281
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| 13. Post-War Box Cars: Modifications | 331
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| 14. The First Specially Equipped Box Cars | 359
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| 15. Last of the 50-ton Box Cars, 1955-1961 | 395
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| 16. Box Cars of the Early 1960s | 417
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| Appendix 1: Additions to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 | 453
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| Appendix 2: Diagrams | 467
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| Appendix 3: B-50-2, B-40-2 CS Specification | 477
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| Bibliography | 481
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| Index | 489
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