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Nostalgia & History > B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78Date: 07/28/16 11:56 B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: gcm (1-2) In Akron,Ohio I ran across this old (looks like retired) heavyweight car.
I believe that is the AC&Y crossing over the B&O.   Date: 07/28/16 11:56 Re: B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: gcm (3-5) I don't know what the car was originally.
The small windows at each end with the rounded top were probably at the restrooms and had stained glass at one time. The rounded top of these windows makes me think this was a very old car - maybe in the early years of steel car production. I thought I had more inside shots but can anybody tell what this car might have been?    Date: 07/28/16 12:41 Re: B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: ClubCar It's hard to tell from looking at it although it could have been a standard coach or a parlor car. Very hard to tell from those photos.
Date: 07/28/16 17:09 Re: B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: px320 The single row of rivits along the side sill suggests the car was built prior to 1917. That was about the year Pullman changed the side sill configuration and used a double row of rivits
Date: 07/29/16 00:17 Re: B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: mp51w Imagine if that car could talk! Vestibules at both ends! Interesting truck design too!
That remnant of wall was either a bathroom or a drawing room. 20/1 sleeper? Date: 07/30/16 04:31 Re: B&O heavyweight work car at Akron -- Dec 78 Author: Rainier_Rails The #X4498 seen here was ex-Class A-16 80 seat coach #4520, and it was built by American Car & Foundry (AC&F); no info on when it was built, or in what Lot. The partition whose remains are seen in picture #5 separated the main seating area from the smoking area; no info on how many of the total of 80 seats were located in the smoking area as compared to the main seating area.
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