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Date: 06/23/18 12:17
B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: gcm

This is a rescan of a B&O heavyweight baggage car still in passenger paint near Kent,Ohio along the old B&O.
The small door at the far end is unusual in baggage cars I've seen.

Gary

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Date: 06/23/18 12:35
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: King_Coal

Maybe an ex-RPO. Nice!

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Date: 06/23/18 13:27
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: ts1457

King_Coal Wrote:
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> Maybe an ex-RPO. Nice!

baggage & mail with a 15' RPO compartment.

Perhaps class E-7c built by AC&F between 1926 and 1929.
Looks like they were in the not exclusive number range from 272 - 296.

Jack




 

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Date: 06/23/18 13:36
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: Korigaoka1811

This shows that as late as 1980 there were still some treasures sitting on quiet sidings.

John

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Date: 06/23/18 15:10
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: refarkas

Great photo of a Railway Express car. 
Kent was the home of much of my early railfanning from the late 1960's to early 1970's, but I don't recall it being there then.
Bob

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Date: 06/23/18 19:33
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: EL3600

Nice!  
 

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Date: 06/24/18 04:39
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: GPutz

I recall a newspaper article many years ago about someone finding a mail car that had been sitting on a B&O siding for 10 years or so that was full of mail.  Gerry

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Date: 06/25/18 03:11
Re: B&O heavyweight baggage car -- Dec 80
Author: gcm

ts1457 Wrote:
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> King_Coal Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Maybe an ex-RPO. Nice!
>
> baggage & mail with a 15' RPO compartment.
>
> Perhaps class E-7c built by AC&F between 1926 and
> 1929.
> Looks like they were in the not exclusive number
> range from 272 - 296.
>
> Jack

Thanks for the info.
Gary

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