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SAL box (was Union Pacific Company Service Boxcar)
Some people call these "turtleback" roofs.
On 12/23/2022 1:12 AM, Larry Fink wrote:
Tim O'Connor was correct about the rounded-roof car being SAL. Close examination shows the faded reporting mark SAL 19332 or something like it. Bowser had an HO model of 19436 that's in the same ORER line number. The kit box was designated X-31a single door 40' boxcar, kit #55304. An in-service photo of SAL 193340 shows the car class marked as B7 and a built date of 5-41.
Larry
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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts
Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts
A reminder, that the shake and take project from prototype rails at the beach, 2022, is the SAL AF1, automobile and furniture car. I believe that is the double door version of the B7. The basis of that car project is a Bowser double door x31
b/c body with new resin ends, and a significantly revised underbody. While the PRR did not have a flush roof single door car, Bowser does offer that, to model the n&w cars of the same appearance. That, with new ends, and a revised underbody would be the basis
for an HO scale kit bash of the B7.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn Alabama (temporarily relocated to Boulder Colorado! Where the temperature is now warmer than it is in Alabama!)
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Some people call these "turtleback" roofs.
On 12/23/2022 1:12 AM, Larry Fink wrote:
Tim O'Connor was correct about the rounded-roof car being SAL. Close examination shows the faded reporting mark SAL 19332 or something like it. Bowser had an HO model of 19436 that's in the same ORER line number. The kit box was designated X-31a single door 40' boxcar, kit #55304. An in-service photo of SAL 193340 shows the car class marked as B7 and a built date of 5-41.
Larry
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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts