Reweighs
5. Due to wear on the freight cars and changes made
during shoppings, AAR Car Service Rule 11 mandated
that new composite wood and steel underframe and all
steel boxcars were to be reweighed after the first 15
months in service, with subsequent reweighing every
48 months. New open-top cars and covered hoppers
were reweighed after the first 30 months in service,
and every 30 months for subsequent light weigh-
ing. New refrigerator cars, all-steel flatcars, all-steel
house and steel stock cars were to be light-weighed
30 months after the initial weighing, and 48 months
for all subsequent weighing. (from the January 1956
“ORER.”)
The rule also reads, in section F, paragraph 30,
“When cars are re-stenciled after re-weighing, all old
stenciling to be renewed must be obliterated with
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