Description

Pere Marquette Boxcar 88958

Standard gauge
80,000lb
Composite
Wooden side walls and steel end walls
All-steel underframe
45500lb Capacity

History

Built in 1927 by Pressed Steel Car Company in Pennsylvania for the Pere Marquette Railway. When it had

wide doors, it could transport automobiles inside. In 1947, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad took over the Pere Marquette Railroad and used this boxcar on maintenance of way trains until retirement in 1980. It was then delivered to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum and awaits to be repaired. Today, it is in the railyard for visitors to see.

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