Nostalgia & History > B&O heavyweight baggage car

Dec 1980
Still in passenger paint in a siding at Kent,Ohio along the B&O.
The small door at the far end - maybe an RPO/baggage at one time ?
A rescan.

Gary

 

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The car had a 15' RPO compartment. As a baggage mail, I believe it was B&O Class E-7c. I do not have the exact number series or order information, but I think the series might have been nos. 272 - 291.

In my diagrams from 1956, looks the the converted baggage car class was B-21 with 12 cars in the 675-686 series. I think one car was an oddball that was not originally B&O.

 

Thanks for the car info !
Gary

Great catch - By this time I rarely went to Kent, so this is a surprise.
Bob

Is it possible this car was rebuilt from something else?  The baggage doors are too narrow for a straight baggage car and I'm seeing what look to be blanked out windows also.

agent1522 Wrote:
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> Is it possible this car was rebuilt from something
> else?  The baggage doors are too narrow for a
> straight baggage car and I'm seeing what look to
> be blanked out windows also.

I am confidant about the information I gave.

From the diagrams, both original and as rebuilt, the baggage doors are five feet. As you say, a bit narrow compared to the average baggage car, but of course, it originally was not a straight baggage car.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/25 06:06 by ts1457.