portable "step boxes"

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And....Rapido makes them in HO scale!

https://rapidotrains.com/rapido-bits-ho-scale-passenger-car-step-boxes-yellow-pack-of-4.html

Jim Brewer

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:45 PM James Brewer <jim.brewer.3611 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is a promotional image, but I'm almost certain they were used at most
> stations in passenger service.
>
> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=108319
>
> Jim Brewer
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:38 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
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>> I worked on the extra board out of Williamson and caught the passenger
>> run to Roke in 1967. We had a step box on that run.
>> As to color it was the same red as the passenger coaches (tuskin red?)
>> and the top was black. There was some gold lettering on it but I don’t
>> remember what it was.
>>
>> Larry Reed
>>
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>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 10:32 AM, NW Mailing List <
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>> They were not used just at Crewe. I can remember seeing step boxes used
>> at stations with platforms. That first step is pretty high for some people.
>> The portable step boxes were pretty much standard in the 1940's and '50's.
>> And, I think I remember, not just on the N&W.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 01:36:28 AM CDT, NW Mailing List via
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>>
>> Yes - they were used at Crewe for all passenger trains that I saw in the
>> 50's and 60's:  Nos 7-8, 25-26, 3-4, 15-16.  They are all the ones that I
>> was familiar with. I rode on 7-8 as a child and 3-4 later.
>>
>> William M (Bill) Mason
>> wmmason at verizon.net
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