N&W boxcars without doors

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#yiv2701041310 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Was this also practiced during the steam era?
The door-less box cars didn't make their appearance until the mid-1960s.The so-called standard box car had been 40 ft. in length with 6 ft. doors -but as time went by, it didn't meet the requirements of some shippers.   Therewere instances where  tow motors wouldn't clear the six ft. doors.  Then too,many-a-box car would be guided to the rip track because the doors wouldn't open.So as plug-door boxes and hy-cube cars entered the scene,  the forty-footersended their career hauling low-revenue limestone on friction-bearing trucks.                                                                              Harry Bundy 
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