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SF-7260 Stenciling July 28, 1965Southern 9200 - 9499

Southern SCUF Box Cars 9200 - 9499 (Specification F-201)

Southern 70- ton capacity SCUF box cars 9200 - 9499 were built to Southern Specification F-201 by Pullman-Standard at their Bessemer, AL plant as Lot 8694. All were built with P-S Hydraulic Cushion underframe mechanisms and 10 ft. - 0 in. Camel Sales Co. aluminum doors.

All 300 cars were delivered during June and July 1962. The Southern was assigned 180 cars 9200 - 9379, CNO&TP 75 cars (9380 - 9454), AGS 15 cars (9484 - 9498) and GS&F 1 car number 9499. F-156 is the card record for the Specification F-201 cars.

9319 was wrecked at Salvisa, KY in June, 1966, 9325 was wrecked at Bridgeport, TN in October 1967 and dismantled in May 1968.

P-S 536-H-8 Stenciling, November 16, 1962

This poor quality P-S drawing was the original for Southern SF-7206, shown above and right. After 1962, very few car builders’ drawings were traced by the railroad. Drafting costs increased and P-S started producing drawings larger than the 36" x 48" size that fit in the SR’s filing cabinets. SRHA Archives

Southern 9379 Pullman-Standard Builders Photo SRHA Archives

SF-7206 Stenciling, November 16, 1962

Traced from Pullman-Standard drawing 536-H-8 (on opposite page), SF-7206 illustrates the first time both SERVES THE SOUTH and SUPER CUSHION SERVICE slogans appear together.

The reference to “Table A” on the upper right of the car side describes which, if any, subsidiary initials were to be stenciled on the car. Ownership of the 9200 - 9499 cars was divided: Southern (9200 - 9279), CNO&TP (9280 - 9454), NO&NE (9455 - 9483), AGS (9484 - 9498) and GS&F (9499).

Note that while the drawing shows a DF stencil to be applied to the door, neither the original P-S drawing, nor the builder’s photo of Southern 9379, shown on the opposite page, includes that stencil. SF-21469, drawn July 27, 1965, specifies Epon Orange for a DF stencil on aluminum doors and yellow stencil paint for steel doors.

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Southern 9200 - 9499

SF-21469 Location of “DF” Stencil on 10 ft. - 0 in. Sliding Doors, July 27, 1965

Not drawn specifically for the 9200 - 9499 series box cars, SF-21469 shows the detail of the 33 in. DF stencil and its location on 10 ft. - 0 in. Youngstown style doors.

Southern 9206 is in service for Norfolk Southern in Nixon, GA on July 28, 1990 twenty-eight years after leaving Pullman-Standard’s Bessemer, AL plant. Most of its original stenciling is intact although the “Specially equipped, when empty return to Southern Railway” stencil has been painted over and there is no DF marking on the replacement steel door. It, and two similarcars have returned to Nixon, GA for the paper loads they have been carrying since they were delivered to the Southern Railway. Oscar W. Kimsey, Jr. photo

SF-7260 Stenciling, July 28, 1965

SF-7260 was traced from P-S drawing 536-H-8-B. The Super Cushion Service stencil is a relatively new addition to Southern’s box car fleet but the 24 in. high SOUTHERN and 18 in. road number are the same as when the block lettering style was introduced in 1959.

These cars continue the evolution of Southern Railway box car designs that started with the single-sheathed outside post construction used on the Specification F-192 (9000 - 9199 series) cars built in 1960. For Spec. 201, the cars’ sides used a seven panel design that would become common on Pullman-Standard cars. These cars received the same brake hose modification as the 9000 - 9199 cars. The builder’s photo of Southern 9379 (below) shows as-built with the angle cock welded to the coupler.

Southern 9000 - 9199 and 9200 - 9499

Southern (Norfolk Southern) 9211Although repainted by its new owner in May, 1990, Norfolk Southern had not yet started renumbering all Southern and Norfolk &Western cars into a consolidated system.

Car class designations are a point of confusion during this period. The (illegible) lettering just above the side sill to the right of the consolidated lube stencil shows this car to be a “BS- ” class car. The Southern never used class designa-tions on car drawings, in diagram books or on rolling stock. Norfolk and Western cars were historically assigned Class

types. For example B-10 was the tenth class of N&W box cars, H was as-signed to hopper cars, etc. The N&W practice was extended to ex-SR equip-ment at the time of the merger simply by adding an S after the car type. BS-10 indicated a Southern car. No attempt was made to have N&W and Sou class numbers represent the same car design, etc.

It is simply incorrect to identify any “Southern” rolling stock as having a par-ticular class designation. The only references to car types or classes were where a drawing would refer to a “50 ft. 6 in. 50-ton class” car. Photo by Oscar W. Kimsey, Jr., Nixon, GA, June 1990

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SF-5572 Steel End Inner Detail, September 9, 1965

Drawing SF-5572 shows the 3/16 in. plate steel used on the inside of the ends of the 9200 - 9499 cars. The drawing was traced from P-S drawing 509-E-45-B.

Southern 9200 - 9499

Southern 9379 B end P-S Photo, SRHA Archives

Southern 9200 - 9499

Southern 9319 was on tour with a variety of other new equipment in 1962 when B.F. Roberts took this photo at Hayne Shop in Spartanburg. The stencil arrangement conforms to drawing SF-7260 and the car’s original aluminum doors are obvious. B.F. Roberts photo, collection of Oscar W. Kimsey, Jr.

(Above) One of the Pullman-Standard photographer’s duties was to take his equipment into a new box car and have people close the doors so he could take interior builder’s photos of the new cars. Here is an example inside Southern box car 9371. The black stencil paint on the inside of the door indi-cates it is unpainted aluminum and rows of lading band anchors on the inside walls are clearly visible.

The lading band anchors suggest more research on when and how these cars were modified to warrant the DF stencil shown on SF-7206 is needed. Were DF bars available that locked into the lading strap anchors or were other inte-rior modifications required? Pullman-Standard photo, Bessemer, AL, July 3, 1962

(Right) Southern 9385 at Norcross, GA in October 1989 carries a Green Light slogan, has had its roof walk removed, side ladder stiles and the end ladder reduced to hand grab height and its brake wheel lowered as it continues in service for Norfolk Southern. Oscar W. Kimsey, Jr. photo

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SF-5576 General Arrangement, September 7, 1965

SF-5576 was traced from Pullman-Standard drawing 529-F-26-A.

Southern 9200 - 9499

True to its title, a general arrangement drawing is not intended to show particular details so individual parts could be fabricated. It gives the overall layout of the car and includes the most important dimensions. Showing

car ends or roofs on an arrangement drawing was never consistent. The complexity of the drawing, or a draftsman’s individual decision, may have been the deciding factor.

SF-5573 Underframe and Brake Arrangement, September 9, 1965

This drawing is typical for a 1960s cushioned underframe box car. Large structural steel shapes make up the fixed and sliding center sills, bolsters, stringers and side sills.

The car’s brake line is mounted on the sliding center sill with a flexible hose, close to the car’s center line, connected to the brake valve. The

drawing shows the hose with the center sill in its at rest condition and the same hose with the sill fully extended to the left and right.