This all-one-piece cast steel car was built in June 1951.

Conrail recently scrapped a similar flat car that had been languishing near the old Lehigh Valley yard in South Plainfield, New Jersey. It was said to be one of the last few known to exist.

Hearing about the scrapping reminded me of a conversation from two years earlier about an old Pennsy flat car kicking around Cleveland. I contacted Jon at Horizon Rail and asked if the car were still around. Lo and behold, it was.

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