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Owner: Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Type: Box Car
AAR Class: XL: Loader Equipped. Box car similar in design to "XM", with steel perforated side walls or equipped with interior side rails for securement of certain types of lading and/or permanently attached movable bulkheads.
AAR Type: A230
Detail Info:   Equipped Box Car, Inside Length: Less than 49', cushion draft gear/underframe, Other type door/opening
CBQ Class:   XML-16
Builder:   Berwick Foundry and Forge
Dry Capacity:   5118
User Notes:   green 50 boxcar

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CB&Q XML-16 20716
Title:  CB&Q XML-16 20716
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Class XML-16 20716 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was one of 205 class XML-16's built in 1969 by Berwick Foundry and Forge. It was delivered in the pre-merger cascade green paint scheme. The plan was to paint the word NORTHERN below BURLINGTON once the merger was approved in 1970, but the font changed after the merger, so the plan was never implemented. For grins, I cloned the word NORTHERN out of BURLINGTON and "painted" it on the car in Photoshop, and I think I see the problem. The letter E is difficult to read in this font style. The final BN font is thinner. This car is stenciled: "When Empty Return To Railroad Agent Clinton Iowa" on the right side by the ladder. The re-weigh date is: CP 9-79.
Photo Date:  9/1/1981  Upload Date: 11/5/2008 12:42:13 PM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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