AAR 40' box cars?

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Ken, 



The N&W did not own any AAR steel 40' boxcars.  Many other roads did, and you need only reference the web sites of Red Caboose/Intermountain or Branchline to see what roads they decorated their AAR cars for.  As far as I know, none of these manufacturers offered bogus schemes; only prototypically correct ones. 



In your time era, the only "standard" car design N&W owned was the USRA single-sheathed boxcar; they had 800 of these in class BK; however, sometime in the late 30s/early 40s, N&W replaced the peak roofs of these cars with radial roofs.  Westerfield offers a one-piece body resin kit for the N&W car. 



It isn't until the mid/late 1950s that N&W began purchasing some "standard" design cars, such as the PS-1 boxcars and PS-2 covered hoppers. 



Jim Brewer 

Glenwood MD 


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Subject: AAR 40' box cars? 

I returned from a train show today with a generous handful of AAR steel 
40' box cars - mostly Athearn, but a few others as well.  I'm not 
impressed with the paint or details, so a little work is in order.  As 
such, I have an opportunity to repaint and re-letter the cars. 

Did the N&W have any such cars in 1940?  If so, what did they look like? 
  What road numbers?  Are there HO scale decals available for them? 
-- 
Kenneth Rickman - krickman1 at carolina.rr.com 
Salisbury, NC 
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