Train Car Flooring

Boxcar floor generally comes in oak or maple 8 9 feet long 12 inches wide and 2 3 8 inches thick.

Train car flooring.

They have a rich color and beautiful character marks as well as natural distressing that many try to replicate. I only have 40 right now but will be getting another load soon. Composite interior lining of decorative melamine aluminum and various core material for ceilings walls and cab partitions. The cargo flooring is salvaged from containers that ride across the country on the railroad cars.

After the containers have traveled 1 000 000 miles they get decommissioned and taken apart. Each square foot weighs about 8 9 pounds. Manufacturers of machine arc seam welded water tight stainless steel ply metal flooring. 10 4 long x 9 wide x 6 deep.

The cargo flooring is made up of oak strips and measures about 1 1 8th thick x 12 wide. The railcar flooring is the flooring from the train cars. These oak or maple planks were used as the original flooring in railroad boxcars and were removed when the railroad car was decommissioned. These big oak beams were removed from flat bed train cars.

I travel around the country removing the flooring from these obsolete train cars and sell it to architects builder furniture makers restaurants and bars etc. This amazing reclaimed wood has traveled the rails of america for decades and wears the story of its life on its surface.