Paint Shop – 79 : Georgia & Florida Railway Boxcar 488, part 2

: G&F 488

Here are the data of the car and a belief history of the railroad.

G&F 400 - 499 series boxcars:
G&F XL #400 to 499 series boxcars were built in 1959 by Pullman-Standard.

The Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for October 1968 shows the group #400 to #499 with 96 cars in place, described as follows:
AAR designation XL and description “Box, All Steel” only. The inside length of these cars was 50 feet 6 inches, inside width 9 feet 2 inches, inside height 10 feet 5 inches, outside length 54 feet 7 inches, extreme height 15 feet, door opening 9 feet 3 inches, and capacity 4845 cubic feet or 110,000 pounds.


Georgia & Florida Railway/road (reporting mark G&F) was a north-south railroad with lines primarily in Georgia. The company was established in 1906 as Georgia & Florida Railway by the former Seaboard Air Line Railway president John Skelton Williams. Through acquiring and constructing, the G&F route eventually stretched between Greenwood, South Carolina, and Madison, Florida in 1910.

It was renamed to Georgia & Florida Railroad in 1926 after the reorganization. It renamed again to Georgia & Florida Railway in 1963 after the acquisition by the Southern Railway. Finally, in 1971, it was merged into Central of Georgia and the name G&F came to an end.

Part of the former G&F route in Georgia and Florida is operated by the short line railroad Georgia and Florida Railway (reporting mark GFRR), a subsidiary of OmniTRAX, since 1995.


The map below is the part of Union Pacific Map of the United States printed in 1971, with the G&F route traced in red line by the author.

The bottom is the photo of a Japanese variant of equipment with "cigar band": Japanese National Railway’s non-revenue equipment ワム66172.

: 1966 G&F route
: Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan. Aug. 26, 2018


以下に、該当車両の概要、およびGeorgia & Florida Railwayの簡単な歴史を記す。

G&F 400 - 499 series boxcars:
AARによる分類：XL
内寸：長手50フィート６インチ、 短手9フィート２インチ, 天井高10フィート５インチ
外寸：長手54フィート７インチ、 最高高さ15フィート、扉開口幅９フィート
容積：4845 立方フィート／110,000 パウンド
96両在籍（April 1974 ORER）

Georgia & Florida Railway/road (reporting mark G&F)は、1906年に設立された、サウス・カロライナ州greenwoodおよびフロリダ州Madisonを結んでいた鉄道である。1926年にGeorgia & Florida Railroadに改編・改称したが、1963年にSouthern Railwayに買収されGeorgia & Florida Railwayに戻った。1971年にSouthern Railway 傘下のCentral of Georgiaに吸収され消滅。一部がGeorgia and Florida Railway (reporting mark GFRR)として運行されている以外は廃線になっている。

このシリーズの初回で取り上げた、やはりSOU傘下となるSavannah & Atlanta Railwayとはジョージア州St. Clairで交差していた。50年以上前からNS対CSXの綱引きが繰り広げられていたことは興味深い。

地図は、筆者の手元にあった1971年発行のUnion Pacificによる全米路線図上に、該当路線を赤色で書き込んだものである。