Paint Shop – 81 : Seaboard Air Line Boxcar 21315, part 2

: SAL 21315

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

SAL 21000 - 21599 series boxcars:
SAL XL #21000 to 21599 series boxcars were built in 1959 by Pullman-Standard.

The Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for October 1968 shows the group #21000 to #21599 with 579 cars in place, described as follows:
AAR designation XL and description “Box, Stl.” with notes “equipped with nailable steel floor and lading band anchors” and “converted from XM to XL type”. The inside length of these cars was 50 feet 6 inches, inside width 9 feet 4 inches, inside height 10 feet 6 inches, outside length 54 feet 5 inches, extreme height 15 feet, door opening 10 feet, and capacity 4863 cubic feet or 100,000 pounds.


Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL) was a network of routes in the Southeastern United States connecting Florida and the northern states. The origins of the railroad were the Portsmouth & Roanoke Railroad (P&R) established in 1832 and Raleigh & Gaston Railroad (R&G) established in 1836. In 1875, P&R, R&G, and R&G subsidiary Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad (R&AA-L) formed the Seaboard Air-Line System controlled by John M. Robinson.

In 1900, John S. Williams gathered 19 railroads including the three mentioned above to create the Seaboard Air Line Railway. He also established the Georgia & Florida Railway in 1906. The Railway reached Miami in 1926 but forced to be reorganized as the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1946. The Railroad finally merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) to form Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL) in 1967.

SCL became Family Lines System in 1972, Seaboard System in 1982, and finally CSX in 1986.

The map below is the part of the “Union Pacific Map of the United States” printed in 1971, with the 1966 SAL route traced in red line by the author.

: SAL 21315
: SAL #27249 Encino, NM. Sep. 13, 2015
: 1966 SAL route

　
以下に、該当車両の概要、およびSeaboard Air Line Railroadの簡単な歴史を記す。

SAL 21000 - 21599 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４インチ, 天井高10フィート６インチ
外寸：長手54フィート５インチ、 最高高さ15フィート、扉開口幅10フィート
容積：4863 立方フィート／100,000 パウンド
579両在籍（October 1968 ORER）

Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL)は、1832年設立のPortsmouth & Roanoke Railroad (P&R)および1836年設立のRaleigh & Gaston Railroad (R&G) を基とする、フロリダ州および南部諸州を結んでいた鉄道である。マイアミには1926年に到達。その後、1967年にAtlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)と合併、Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)となった。SCLは1986年CSXを形成。こんにち路線はCSXの一部になっている。

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。