Santa Fe #10529

ATSF 10529   Box    (Builder unknown), 1930, ATSF Class Bx-35

50′ / Steel, Single door, 100,000 lb. capacity

History:    Built in March 1930 as Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) FE-U class outside braced boxcar #(unknown); Rebuilt in 1940 into a class Bx-35 steel sided car #10529.  Retired (date unknown); Moved to Jack London Village in Oakland and used as a billboard and store space; Donated to PLA by the Port of Oakland Feb 2001.  Moved to Brightside by truck March 2, 2001; Operational, Brightside, CA

Santa Fe #10529 in a demonstration freight on 10/02/2001 not long after it was moved from Oakland to the NCRy. – Photo by Alan Siegwarth – Used with permission.