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Old boxcars often converted into homes along highway between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

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New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Transportation hopes may soon be helping to solve the oil shortage in the East. The car is a standard automobile-type steel box car fitted with four steel tanks enclosed in wooden boxes. It has a capacity of 12,200 gallons--considerably more than the average tank car serving the East

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Old boxcars often converted into homes along highway between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1938
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Gauley Bridge (W. Va.), 38.16833, -81.19472
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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