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Car Number

Ann Arbor Railroad
900 series flat car Jan. 1971 to 1975 - Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 900 series cars

Car Number

IL

OL

XH

AAR Class

Built

Note No.

DTI_Flat_car_900-949 drawing

905

51' 4"

56' 9"

11' 9"

F211

1942

1

928, 940, 946

50' 6"

56' 9"

11' 9"

F211

1942

1

908, 941

51' 7"

56' 9"

15' 1"

F212

1942

2

 

907, 912, 915, 916, 918, 921, 934, 935, 938, 940, 946, 947

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

Notes

  1. Ann Arbor cars were originally DT&I 900 series cars built in 1942 by Greenville Steel Car.  Cars were rebuilt by AA with bulkheads during summer of 1971 and assigned to Superwood in the fall of 1971, assignment coverage from 1971 to 1975.
  2. Equipped with side framing to load telephone poles, 1972, 1973
  3. Listed in 1972 listed for pole loading

AA cars were assigned to Superwood to protect pool route loadings.  Superwood shipped a number of carloads of hardboard, for automotive use, each month to locations on the AA and the GTW in Michigan points, thus the reason for GTW all-door boxcars and AA bulkhead flatcars being assigned to Superwood, Duluth, MN.  Routed: BN - E. Winona, MN > GBW > AA - Frankfort, MI to Michigan points.

Hardboard - produced first by the Mansonite Coporateion in 1926.  Hardboard is commonly and incorrectly called "masonite" by most people.

Henry F. Burger 1/31/2008