3: UP 217004.
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4: Closeup of the B end.
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National. Think of the beam
as a very tall center sill,
improving the ability of a
low-decked flat car to carry
heavy loads. It also ties the
bulkheads, useful on cars
hauling shifty loads like lum-
ber, poles and pipe.
The type has have been
built in several lengths
– 66' between the bulk-
heads for BN, 83-footers
for steel truss traffic on the
Seaboard Coast Line, then
these ExactRail 60' 8” cars in
1977 for Milwaukee, Union
Pacific and Western Pacific.
Later cars were built to 73'
for less-dense kiln-dried
lumber, and Walthers has
offered these. The Front
Range-McKean model car
