NYC box car with a star on it
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I just bought a Bachmann Silver Series (15009) box car, NYC 164613, stamped BLT 10-47. Under the oval “NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM” logo is a 5-pointed star about 10 scale inches wide. Does anyone know what the star means? This is not an REA car with an attendant or anything. Just a regular 40’ box car.
Thanks, Doug Paasch
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Seth Lakin
Doug, from CanadaSouthern.com notes on NYC painting and lettering notes “A STAR under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service as per note #2 in drawing book J-56487”
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Thank you Seth. This info is sufficient for my purposes.
Doug Paasch
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Seth Lakin via Groups.Io
Doug, from CanadaSouthern.com notes on NYC painting and lettering notes “A STAR under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service as per note #2 in drawing book J-56487”
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While that is true, I wonder if it simply implies a car with tight floors and walls appropriate for clean lading that doesn't require a lot of dunnage (that could harm the walls and floors). Later NYC cars had a yellow circle with a black "A" - is that basically the same thing? Tim O'Connor
On 1/22/2020 6:48 PM, Seth Lakin via Groups.Io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Seth Lakin
Tim wrote “ Later NYC cars had a yellow circle with a black "A" - is that basically the same thing?” Yes, a clean loading only car. Not necessarily grain loading only as many 50’ both single and double door boxcars were given the circled A. Seth
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Even though the car was intended for grain loading ("A star under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service") I would suppose the car still would be inspected before loading and given the appropriate grade card tag (see examples) if it passed inspection. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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