David, Des Plaines Hobbies offered the special run of A&EC models that were made by Innovative Model Works (IMWX). The kit I purchased is catalogue no. DPH193, A&EC 1045, having square-corner 4-5 Drea

Allen and others interested, The Kadee 4000-series model represents 40’-6” PS-1 box cars with 6’ door openings built in 1950 thru 1952 & into early 1953 at the Michigan City, Indiana, plant. For your

Tim, ACF wasn’t the only builder of cars of this type that were primarily used for chlorine containers. ACF records document the company built approximately 350 "Multi-Unit Tank Cars" from 1924 to 195

Garth, For those interested in the end vents, attached is a one-page PDF list of 50’ PS-1 box cars confirmed to have end vents when built by Pullman-Standard from 1956 to 1960. Southern's cars had 6 v

Dennis & Steve, From experience of cataloguing thousands of ACF drawings as well as seeing a substantial number of Pullman-Standard drawings, it was typical that drawings used to manufacture parts or

Bill, Branchline Trains (now Atlas) offered HO 50’ AAR box & auto car kits as follows with the side arrangement defined as riveted or welded & the number of side sheets to the left & right of the door

Brian, No, all were steel. The earliest PS-1 box cars built starting in 6-47 (LV 62000-62499) came with Apex Tri-lok running boards & brake steps. In addition to Apex that had widespread use on PS-1s,

STMFC, I have corresponded off-list with Lester about this question. For the STMFC discussion group I offer the following information. For the ATSF Bx-48 box cars 274000-274749, my STMFC roster with f

David, Columbian Carbon’s reporting marks were CCX. For the referenced 1952 date of the photo, CCX car numbers ranged from 211-307, 95 cars in service as of 1/52. They were built in relatively small g

Bill, From the diagram….No. 14 ga. C.B. galv. steel sheets & No. 11 ga. galv. saddles; SREM Co. Several good photos clearly illustrate the roofs were of the Murphy rectangular raised-panel type. Seabo

Tim, The Seaboard diagram for 23000-23499 denotes the ends as..…4” deep corrugations; 5/16” top & 1/4” bottom sections; Mt. Vernon Drwg. No. 508-D-18895. Thus, it’s apparent these ends were designed b

Eric, I don’t know if this will be of any help, but here goes. About 30 years ago I obtained permission from ACF to cut slivers from larger paint samples that are glued to the inside covers of bill of

Don, In 1940 George Sisk photographed ART 247 from series 200-299, built in July 1930 by the Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. The cars with wood sides & ends had steel fish-belly center sills. These

John, If new Wabash box cars built in 1948 by ACF were indicative of repainted box cars of the period, then the truck side frames should be #10 Wabash Red. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Aaron, All I have to go by are original paint specs. The AF-1 cars 11000-11699 eceived metallic brown for the entire car including doors, underframe & trucks. Stencils were white as these cars predate

Aaron, Seaboard’s turtle-back roof auto cars measured 14’-6 1/2” from rail to top of the Apex (11000-11999) or Blaw-Knox (22000-22199) running boards, and they were not equipped with brake regulators.

Eric, No joy yet. I inquired with Gene Fusco about the project because I have been one who pushed for it, along with Al Hoffman. Both of us pushed & provided the necessary information for selfish reas

Bill, To help answer your question, I have a number of in-service photos that can be used to bracket the date. EJ&E 61205 was built “new 8-48" with a scheme painted freight car red. A photo taken 6-24

Bob, The UP BA-50-2 ballast cars were built as ACF lot 156. They were 33’-2” length & 1982 cu. ft. capy. Other cars of similar design were: C&S 15150-15249, lot 214, built 8-26 CB&Q 220000-220199, lot

Garth, Apex Tri-lok, Blaw-Knox, Kerrigan, and the redesigned version (late-1953 to early 1954) of the U.S. Gypsum running board & brake step were all rectangular open-grid design with a similar overal