NEB&W Guide to Steel Passenger Cars - IntroductionThis file is open to website members only
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Heavyweight cars date from the first decade of this century and into the '30's. Cars built in the late '20's and even into the '30's seem to have favored the arch roof to a greater and greater extent, based on my haphazard observations, especially after streamliners made that THE contour. At the end of the heavyweight era, the lines blur between heavyweight and streamline, but