[Accrs] Three Lovely Ladies and a Boxcar

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Tony,

3 or 4 railroads tried the aluminum car sides.   Athearn/Globe made kits 
with metal sides and wood frames.    I have one for each railroad that 
had a aluminum car like this.   In fact, I may have more than one of each.

Nice cars, but sort of crude by today's standards.   They can be used 
still with kadee couplers and new trucks (the old metal sprung ones 
don't run real well).

Just went and looked.
RI, 20064, 20067 (Express),  GN and C&O.  I may have a kit somewhere.

Dean



On 11/7/2015 3:40 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Tony Long  tony.long at outlook.com
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> Here's another picture of the aluminum boxcars that Rock Island had 
> build as an experiment.  I just found this one with the three ladies 
> on eBay. I'm including some other pictures  in my collection of this 
> car as well.
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> In terms of models,  there is an O scale version of this that was made 
> back in the 1970's or so.  It maybe be an All Nations kit  which is 
> stamped sides, ends, roof and some wood parts to construct it.
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> For HO scale,  Sunshine models did a resin kit back about 2005.   I 
> have one of these.   There might have been some attempts by Globe back 
> in the 1960's too.  Notice the number of side panels is more that the 
> basic AAR steel 40' boxcar.
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> I forget the number of cars  that were constructed - maybe 10.
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> This would be another candidate for 3D drawing and printing since this 
> is not likely to coming in Athearn Genesis anytime soon.
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