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X26
PRR Class:
X26
Purpose:
box car
Built:
1919
Total Built:
9,900
Length:
40'
Width:
9'3"
Weight:
47,300lbs
Load:
100,000lbs
Color:
Tuscan (freight-car red)
Trucks:
2D-F3
(PRR #44824 from my personal collection)
These are wooden, externally-braced, single-sheathed, box car. PRR cars seem to have retained the vertical brake staff.
The next photo is of a PRR GTC26. There were twenty of these cars which were X26 box cars that had their roofs removed so that they could be used as high-sided gondolas for coke transportation services. They were suitable only for use with coal-dumping machines. They were in use for about ten years starting in 1953.
(PRR #340057 source: October 2003 The Keystone Modeler)
References
- PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Vol. 2, page 33
- X26 classes and its sub-classes
- Side profile diagram
- Side profile diagram
- Excellent photo of an X26 in 1926 (click the photo for a very high-resolution image)