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Who Owned this Box Car?

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Who Owned this Box Car?
Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, January 19, 2014 9:53 PM

I've seen a number of these box cars while railfaning here in Spartanburg.

The NADX reporting mark belongs to GE. But does anybody know who owned these box cars before GE?

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:00 PM

     For what it's worth, the tree symbol is the corporate symbol for the Boise Cascade lumber company.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:15 PM

Murphy Siding

     For what it's worth, the tree symbol is the corporate symbol for the Boise Cascade lumber company.

That's correct, and that points primarily to two affiliated railroads:  the Minnesota, Dakota & Western (MDW) and the International Bridge and Terminal Company (IBT).  I haven't seen the NADX 3100 series (about 74 cars, NADX 3100-3173), but from your picture I suspect that it is an older, smaller box car, so it's probably ex-MDW.  They have several different series that are fairly close to these in size; my best guess is that these cars came from MDW series 9000-9099.

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Posted by ETHOVER on Monday, January 20, 2014 5:05 AM

NADX is a GE Railcar owned vehicle.

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