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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR Does anyone else here remember the all-door box cars, AAR Mechanical Designation LU? They were fairly popular around the 1970s, but now are all but extinct. I remember them well, but my friend Sarah would appreciate seeing a picture of one, if anyone can either post one or point us to one. At any rate, I have a couple of questions: First, what were the floors of these cars like? Were they wooden, and did they have some sort of provision for anchoring the doors into position in the floor, by the edges? The reason I was asking was that tonight we classified a welded-rail train--about 30 flat cars--with all of the cars numbered in the ADBF 300 series (ADBF is the Adrian & Blissfield Railroad, a line in Michigan that probably owns more cars than it has track to put them on). These cars looked like cut-down bulkhead flat cars to me. However, when looking at the Equipment Registers or UMLER, they show as being of AAR Mechanical Designation LU! And it occurred to me that an LU car, cut down to the floor, might look like a bulkhead flat car would have--after all, they had no solid walls, just doors along the sides. Hence the second question--does anyone know whether the ADBF 300-series cars (32 of them, numbers 300-331) were converted from old LUs? I will try other sources for this information, and post it on this thread if I find anything out. [/quote] IF I ever saw one as a young railfan, I didn't know what I was seeing. [B)] [8]
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