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A boxcar for Pan Am ?!

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Posted by RMax1 on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:09 PM
My dad who was in the airline business for quite a few years told me that airline freight cars was not too unusual. He said he thought at one time KLM, Sabena and Cathay Pacfic also ran cargo freight cars. Many times they were run between cities with no service to the airlines cargo hub.

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Posted by bandmjim on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:02 PM
I have seen a few at Bucksport(Maine) paper mill , managed to get a few photos, as stated, nice looking cars...
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Posted by rrandb on Sunday, December 25, 2005 6:30 PM
They already own the boxcars so it's a rolling billboard. Basically free advetising as you do not have to be a railfan to recognize there emblem.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:02 AM
Guilford Transportation Industries owns Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Springfield Terminal and, you guessed it, the trademark to Pan American Airways. GTI has not given any reason behind the Pan Am boxcars.
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Posted by wjstix on Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:20 AM
Railfan and Railroad had a pic of the boxcar about six issues back. Pretty neat looking paintscheme, colors not too far off what I use on my freelance road.
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Posted by ericsp on Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:20 AM
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49519
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46001
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39266

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A boxcar for Pan Am ?!
Posted by BRJN on Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:01 AM
Tonight while driving home I was stopped by a train. Not an unusual event, until I took a good look at one of the smaller cars in the train.

This boxcar was painted blue, had white logo and lettering, was maybe 50 ft long (it was a small car among all the high-cubes anyways) and had a PAN AM logo, like the old airline.

How can this be? Pan Am Airlines went bankrupt back when I was in college, and they didn't do trains anyway.

If anybody knows the story behind this boxcar and the company, please tell me.

Thanks.
BRJN
Modeling 1900 (more or less)

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