Re: New Kadee car
Schuyler
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I find this unlikely -- there were slight variations, doors and roofs and ends, from road to road. Recall that Kadee has resisted doing cars when the TACK BOARDS on the doors were in the wrong place, or when the ends had a small number of visible rivets compared to cars with no rivets. With the PS-1 it was economical to produce 8 physically different 40 foot bodies (not counting door variations!) because of the huge number of owners (more than 75,000 cars). Not that I have any idea what it is, but I'd be dumfounded (but HAPPY) if Kadee produced a 1932 ARA box. More likely would be a USRA box car! But I hope not. Tim O.
I just dawned on me while reading Ted Culotta's 1932 ARA box car book last night. There is
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