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How about this slightly older survivor?
> Probably the oldest remaining car in class I railroad revenue freight service, but nowhere as old as MOW or effectively preserved tourist RR stuff. Again, Conrail, ex-Reading. Still in active Class I use by CSX, an old welded-side, green & yellow, 40' box of the Reading's, #60310, built in 1956. The original trucks were never replaced, they simply cut out the friction bearings and stuffed rollers in the journal boxes. The original paint was never replaced either, meaning the paint job is 94% rust, 3% Reading lettering, and 3% Conrail patches. At some point, the roofwalk was removed, reflective stripes were added, and a roll-up door was added inside the door frame because the actual DOOR seems to have RUSTED ITSELF SHUT! For some reason, nobody picked it out to go to the scrapper with all its original brethren, and so it ended up living on as "the boxcar that never dies".
