This box car
red 50’ composite gondola with drop ends, and fishbelly sides
has large white ‘ROCK ISLAND” lettering and runs on black Bettendorf
trucks. Rock Island's 400 ‘War Emergency’ gondolas were built
by Pressed Steel Car Company in November of 1943. When new, #1197
received this box car red paint and white stenciling. Equipped
with 70-ton Bettendorf style trucks, the cars were of 140,000-pound
capacity and 1673 cubic feet. The Rock Island later converted
these cars to adapt in TOFC service, tie loading and steel service.
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