This 50
standard box car with single door is brown with yellow lettering
and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built for the Tidewater Southern
in July 1955 by Pullman-Standard at their Michigan City, Indiana
factory. The Tidewater Southern was formed in 1910 and ran from
central California to points south. It was purchased by Western
Pacific in 1917 and continued as a subsidiary through the 1970s
before being rolled into Union Pacific.
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