AAR 40' box cars?

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Page 36 of the N&W Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Jim 
Nichols states that the N&W did not purchase ARA/AAR boxcars, but used cars 
of their own design until purchasing PS-1s in 1951.

Dick Dunford
Blacksburg, VA

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>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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