Charles Wales Photo, William Hopkins Collection, early 1948, Washington, DC

Between 1944 and 1949 (except for one Bx-49 completed in 1951), the Santa Fe rebuilt its class Bx-8, -9 and -10 class double sheathed box cars into steel box cars that above the underframe were essentially Modified 1937 and 1944 AAR Box Cars. The rebuildings were as follows:

Class	Rebuilt	Rebuilt From	Series Start	Series End	No. of Cars	Ends	Trucks
Bx-41	1944-1945	Bx-8	270000	270134	135	5/5 D	ASF U SP
Bx-42	1944-1945	Bx-9, -10	270500	271033	534	5/5 D	Dalman 2L
Bx-45	1945-1948	Bx-8	271600	271949	350	5/5 D	ASF U SP
Bx-46	1945-1946	Bx-9, -10	272000	272977	978	5/5 D	Dalman 2L
Bx-49	1947-1949	Bx-9, -10	272978	273903	926	4/4 ID	Dalman 2L
Bx-49*	1949	Bx-9, -10	273904	273913	10	4/4 ID	Dalman 2L
Bx-49	1951	Bx-7	273914	273914	1	4/4 ID	?
Totals					2934

* Welded side panels
The information presented in this table was gathered from Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 (Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Four), by John C. Dobyne III. For more information about this book, please click here.