Such flatcars eliminated the need for specialized equipment to load and unload boxcar racks. He sees a wagon train out the door of his boxcar. Its fuselage resembles the shape of a railroad boxcar for simplicity and efficiency. He decided to travel by "side-door Pullman" (a freight boxcar) to St. Louis, Missouri. The function is named after its resemblance to a boxcar, a type of railroad car. Rail camp car 3681 is an ex-D&RGW boxcar. West served as a pallbearer for Boxcar Willie. Later, while stowing away on a boxcar train, the couple makes love. After sneaking Annabelle onto a boxcar, Johnnie steals his engine back. He pulled over and wrote a song entitled "Boxcar Willie". Flying Boxcar transport planes also supported the project. Julie Corman researched female gangsters and came across the story of Boxcar Bertha. Barbara Hershey recalls introducing Scorsese to the book while they were filming "Boxcar Bertha". The band Jawbreaker references El Sobrante as "El Sob" in their song "Boxcar". Vonnegut was taken by boxcar to a prison camp south of Dresden, in Saxony.