B7a & BS class box cars

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Jim,
  Thanks for the info. I guess I have my work cut out for me. I may just
try and get as close as I can to what they looked like?
Take Care and Happy Thanksgiving!
Fred Mullins
modeling the Atlantic & Danville
remember "For Service See......the A&D!"
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> Fred,

>

> Unfortunately for N&W modelers, the freight equipment was mostly designed

by

> N&W and built by outside contractors, i.e. Greenville, or at Roanoke

Shops.

>

> N&W received 800 USRA single sheathed boxcars during WWI; the war

emergency

> H-4 triple bay hoppers were supposedly based upon an ACF design, although

> none of N&W's version were built by ACF.  It is not until the 1950s with

the

> purchase of PS-1 boxcars and PS-2 covered hoppers that N&W began to

acquire

> "assembly line" rolling stock.

>

> N&W did not own any of the ARA or AAR boxcar designs.

>

> So there is really nothing, at the moment, that you could use.  If I

recall

> correctly, the B-7a had a radial roof.  The BS class went through various

> modifications, i.e. BSa and BSb.

>

> You may be able to finds ends available, but for the most part, at this

> time, you'd have to scratchbuild the cars.

>

> Jim Brewer

> Glenwood MD

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>

> > Just incase folks missed my earlier post. I want to model some N&W class

> > B7a's and BS class box cars. They are both 40ft cars. In HO scale. What

> > would be a good starting point to do this? Red Caboose's AAR box cars??

I

> > would appreciate any help in this project.

> > Thanks,

> > Fred Mullins

> > modeling the Atlantic & Danville

> > remember "For Service See......the A&D!"

> >

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