Box Wagons

Some articles on box wagons, wagons, wagon, box:

Northerner (train) - Rolling Stock
... steam locomotives on the NIMT, three 50 ft (15 m) wooden box wagons turned postal vans, five more turned parcels vans and four more steel box wagons turned parcel vans completed the consist ... eight parcel vehicles were replaced by 15 box wagons of a more modern design turned parcels vans in the 1980s ... The 15 parcels wagons remained dedicated to the service till 1991, when Speedlink Parcels was sold to New Zealand Post, some still bearing the old yellow ...
Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop - Current Activities - Rebuilding and Repair of BOX Wagons
... Due to generation of a large no of unloadable BOX wagons in Eastern Railway and thus limiting the usage of these wagons it was felt necessary to introduce special type of repair to BOX wagons in between POH to ...
Zalma, Missouri - History
... the mill stood, a 600-pound yoke of steers and an old wagon ... Messler Company located at Illmo, placed a factory at Zalma to cut veneer and box laths ... This factory provided work for women who stacked the box laths in long rows in the sun for drying ...

Famous quotes containing the words wagons and/or box:

    We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.
    Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

    Such as boxed
    Their feelings properly, complete to tags
    A box for dark men and a box for Other
    Would often find the contents had been scrambled.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)