Only two Santa Fe boxcars in the latest batch from Bill:
ATSF 146177, a Bx37 carrying bulk meal (with 12 grain doors!). This is one of the last batch of this large class, built in 1942. It's represented in HO by a Sunshine kit, and can also be modeled with modifications to the Red Caboose modified 1937 AAR standard boxcar. (I've also got one I built from a Westrail kit, if anyone besides Richard H remembers those.) Many of this class had National B-1 trucks, but this particular car had ASF spring-plankless trucks.
ATSF 270725, a Bx42 carrying bean meal. This is a 1944 graduate of the Santa Fe's program of rebuilding Bx9 and 10 1925 ARA standard double-sheathed boxcars into all-steel cars similar to the modified 1937 AAR standard. It's also represented in HO by a Sunshine kit.
Andy,
What are the implications of the boxcar mixes of outbound traffic from Swift's Soy Bean Processing Operation in Frankfort in 1948-1949 upon your ATSF model (of Cajon Pass?) ? On your layout, the majority of boxcars should not be ATSF, but foreign. What can be learned from these NKP List of movements which can be used on your or anybody else's layout of the 1945-1955 era?
