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[quote user="7j43k"]DODX 39918, the car in the photo that was supplied as an example, was delivered after 1986. [/quote] Ed, Look at this photo.   <a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3630062">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3630062</a> In the photo there is a stencil that says PM (then three letters washed out) below it says 7-86 (see upper left hand corner). Its sister car 39919 has dates going back earlier than that. They are indentical cars, built for identical purpose(s).  I specifically remember looking at the stenciled PM markings and thinking the cars were getting close to the 40 or 50 year mark. The casting date on the right hand side of the truck frame says 8-87. Why does the center wheelset (on all trucks of all cars in this series) appear to have a converted plain bearing box? In the linked photo it appears that the center section is bolted? to the outer two sections. Next time I get the chance I will note the earliest date painted on the car (and the cast in date on the trucks).  I would speculate that these are not the original truck for the flat car.
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