This double door boxcar with Roller Bearing trucks was built in the early 1980s by Pullman Standard. It was previously owned by the Seattle & North Coast Railroad,but eventually it made its way into the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway fleet of boxcars. Known as the CRANDIC, this Class III railway was formed in 1904 and has around 60 miles of track within Iowa. It serves a number of large industrial and agricultural companies.

In the 1970's, a surge of colorful boxcars could be seen all across the country as larger railroads leased more and more boxcars from shortline railroads. To encourage the return of the boxcars, shortline railroads could charge a per diem, or daily fee, until the cars were returned. Incentive Per Diem (IPD) boxcars were primarily 50' rib side boxcars with 10' sliding or plug doors or double sliding doors. Some of these cars can still be seen rolling the rails, under the ownership of new roads, and often heavily weathered and graffitied.

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