Comments on: Those Lowly Boxcars https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35349 Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:38:41 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35349 In reply to Jason Sailer.

Thanks for adding to the story.

]]> By: Jason Sailer https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35345 Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:48:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35345 A new update, 21712 (the red boxcar) may be going to Acadia Valley to be displayed at the grain elevator museum there.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35012 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:45:01 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35012 In reply to Jason Sailer.

A boxcar would be the perfect addition – now let’s win the lotto and make it happen!

]]> By: Jason Sailer https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35008 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:32:23 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35008 In reply to Chris Doering.

The one you recently posted about 😉 A small silver one…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35007 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:08:56 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35007 In reply to Jason Sailer.

Now which one could that be…?

]]> By: Jason Sailer https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35004 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:14:08 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35004 No problem! Would love to see the grain boxcar parked by a certain grain elevator 😉

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-35002 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:11:00 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-35002 In reply to Eric May.

Even into the 1980s, they were everywhere it seems. Then one day a decade later, like your say, they were gone.

]]> By: Eric May https://www.bigdoer.com/46934/short-subjects/those-lowly-boxcars/#comment-34998 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:04:30 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46934#comment-34998 The 40 foot boxcars used to be everywhere you looked. Seems like they disappeared overnight. The last time I saw one in a train was 1997.

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