History
Equipment diagram courtesy Brian Everett
The 18800-18874 series boxcars were built by Berwick Forge and Fabricating in 1972. They came with Keystone 20" travel end-of-car cushioning equipment and were assigned to carry heavy castings for the auto industry.
Information courtesy of Jim Hediger.
If you have additional information, corrections, photos, or diagrams you would like to have added to this page, please e-mail me.
Revenue Service Info
| Type of Service/ORER | 7-72 | 4-74 | 1-79 | 10-81 | 1-85 | 10-94 | 1-96 |
| 'XM' | 75 | - |
|
- | 23 | - | - |
| 'XM' Wheel Loading | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - |
| 'XP' | - | - |
|
- | 2 | - | - |
| 'XP' Auto Castings Service | - | - |
|
- | 33 | - | - |
| 'XP' End Bulkhead/Racks,Auto Castings | - | - |
|
- | 17 | - | - |
| 'XP' Transmissions | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Total in Service | 75 | 75 |
|
- | 75 | - | 0 |
Clicking on the underlined numbers brings up a list of which individual
cars
were assigned to that service at that time.
ORER Data Courtesy Bernd Schroeder, Scott Heiden, Michael Schwiebert
Prototype Photographs
DT&I boxcar # 18848 @ Buffalo, New York 1974 photo courtesy
S. Lamb
Modeling the Car
Branchline
Trains makes an HO scale version of this car in DT&I paint. It
is part #2132
for a single car, or #21323
for a 3-car set with different car numbers.
