Railroad Passenger and Baggage Cars
Chicago & North Western 8784
Description: | Automobile-Horse-Baggage Car |
Equipment Information
C&NW 8784 is an all-steel baggage/horse/automobile car. This car would have been hauled in passenger trains and could be used as a standard baggage car, carrying passengers’ luggage, express freight, and other less-than-car-load (LCL) shipments. However, this car is unusual because it was built with special provisions for carrying prize horses, usually race horses. It originally had collapsible dividers inside the car for keeping horses separated during transport, accommodations for attendants accompanying the horses, and full-width end doors at one end so that the owners of the horses could transport their automobiles aboard the train.
Builder: Pullman/Pullman-Standard
Year Built: 1915
Length: 73ft 5in
Width: 9ft 11in
Height: 14ft 3in
Weight: 122400 lbs
Brakes: LN
Trucks: 6 Wheel
Description: Auto/Horse/Baggage 8ft 6in End Door / later CNW X300742
Arrived: 1982
Condition: Complete / unrestored / not operational
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