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National Car Roster
from the 1947 Official Register of Passenger Car Equipment


National Car Company

Report movements and mileage (by individual car number), send bills for repairs to cars and make remittances to National Car Company, owner (non-shipper), 1101 Vermont Ave., N. W., Washington 5, D. C.

Send requisitions for material to repair cars to National Car Company, E. A. Sweeley, Mechanical Superintendent, Alexandria, Va.


The passenger train cars of this Company are marked "N X" and numbered and classified as follows:

A.A.R.
Mech.
Desig.

MARKINGS
AND
KIND OF CARS

CAR NUMBERS
OR NAMES

LENGTH
OF CAR

No.
of
Cars

Inside

Over
Buffers

ft.   in.

ft.   in.

BMT..

Insulated Milk Tank
Note G
708

40   10

- 1
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note H
709 40   7 - 1
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note G
710 39   10 - 1
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note G
711 39   9 -

1

BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note G
712 to 725 40   7 - 3
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note C
1350 to 1399 -

53   2

8
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note A
1400 to 1429 -

53   6

30
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Notes A,B,C
1430 to 1469 - 53   2 33
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note C
1470 to 1475 - 50    6
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note D
1476 - 42   2 1
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note C
1477 to 1483 - 53   2 3
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note E
1487 to 1489 - 40   7 3
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Notes D,F,J
1490 to 1493 - 40   10 4
BMT.. Insulated Milk Tank
Note D
1496 to 1499

-

41   8

4

Total..........................................................................................99       

Note A--Cars numbered 1400 to 1458 are each equipped to carry one or two insulated tanks of 2,000, 3,000 or 4,000 gallons capacity.

Note B--Cars numbered 1459 to 1464, 1467 and 1468 each are equipped to carry two insulated tanks of 3,000 or 4,000 gallons capacity.

Note C--Cars numbered 1350 to 1353, 1359,1397, 1398, 1399, 1465,1466,1469 to 1475, 1477 to 1479 are each equipped to carry one or two insulated tanks of 3,000 or 4,000 gallons capacity.

Note D--Cars numbered 1476, 1492, 1493 and 1496 to 1499 are each equipped to carry one insulated tank of 4,000 gallons capacity.

Note E--Cars numbered 1487, 1488 and 1489 are each equipped to carry one insulated tank of 3,000 gallons capacity.

Note F--Car numbered 1490 is equipped to carry two insulated tanks of 2,000 gallons capacity.

Note G--Cars numbered 708 and 710 to 725 each have two tanks of 3,000 gallons capacity each.

Note H--Car numbered 709 has two tanks of 4,000 gallons capacity each.

Note J--Car numbered 1491 is equipped to cany three insulated tanks of 2,000 gallons capacity.

(Mar., 1947.)

 


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