Re: SEABOARD "COURTEOUS SERVICE" ARA 1932 BOXCAR
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There's just now a discussion on the ACL-SAL-SCL list about slogans on
Seaboard cars, and John Golden just mentioned that only the AF-2 ("Turtleback") cars (11700 � 11999 and 22000 - 22199 series) had the R. E. Lee slogan; this fits with what I've found myself. Though there was mention of other such cars (14000 series and another), but as John pointed out, the 14000 series were rebuilt from B-5s in 1952, well after the R. E. Lee train was renamed. The Courteous Service slogan I think was introduced in 1954(?), so it's well possible that the slogan is as much based on time as car number, if perhaps not more so. Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC I picked up a Sunshine Models kit # 21.13 Seaboard "Courteous ----- http://hydrorail.hostwq.net/index.html - Rails along the Fraser http://hydrorail.rrpicturearchives.net/ - Rail Photos
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