Wabash XM 17047 End loading car for aluminum tubing at the ALCO extruding mill on the southeast side of Lafayette. Actually located on Wabash leased Lafayette Union Rwy. This is/was a 5 mile belt line leased Sept. 1929 for 30 years by Wabash, [also] served large National Homes Plant. ALCOA works at one time had several double sheathed auto boxes still in Wabash livery. - Mark Vaughan