The "All Door Car" Lives in Brazil

Photograph by Diego Bini, via Flavio Lage. All Door car in cement service.

ALL All Door Car, photo by Digeo Bini, via Flavio Lage.

Not sure if these cars are based on any of the Thrall All Door boxcars which were once quite the rage for shipping lumber from the Pacific Northwest. In the U.S. they were supplanted by the center beam flat car, which has got to be one of the most aesthetically unpleasing freight cars ever built. The design still sees use in Brazil.