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This series of 300 cars with friction bearing trucks was built by Samuel Rea Shops in 1959, and belonged to the X53 class of Pennsylvania’s 50 foot boxcars. They were used primarily for food products and equipped with heaters, insulating plug doors, and DF belt loaders. Pennsylvania was a large Class 1 railroad formed in 1846 and grew to be a predominant shipper on the east coast until 1968 when it merged with rival New York Central to form Penn Central.
