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Now with Code 83 nickel-silver 37-2000 Undecorated [Water-cooled] rails. See display in your dealer store! KATO U.S.A., INC. �TO 100 Remington Road· Schaumburg, IL 60173 www.katousa.com l 1 PRECISION RAILROAD MODELS ittt� Freight Cars of the Fifties: Great Northern 12-Panel 40-Foot "Grain" and Express Service Box Cars from lnterMountain and C&BT Shops kits.. ....4 Layout Tour: C. Bryan Kidd's Recreation of Alleghany, ...12 Virginia on the Chesapeake and Ohio EMD SD45 as BN 6435 and 6495 from S Helper Service EMD SW9 Test RepOlt ....26 Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: Kato and Con Cor models ..................... 21 Summary of All Previous Locomotive EMD SD45 as BN 6435 and 6495 from Performance Test Reports ..................... ..55 Athearn, Kato, Rail Power, or Spectrum Diesel Modeling: Modern Freight Car Modeling: Union Pacific EMD SD7 as the Index of All Previous Articles on Modeling kits ......... ..................... ............................21 Modern FreightCars ................. .............64 Modeling the City: "Laramie Switcher'· from Life-Like Superdetailing the City with Gold Medal or Kato models ....................................... 28 Models fire escapes and other parts....... 34 Modeling the City: Intermodal Modeling: Superdetailing the City with Gold Medal Glen Minnesota, on the Soo Line, OOCL 20, 40 and 45-foot Containers Models fire escapes and other parts....... 34 June 24, 1954,7:54 AM ................ ........32 from A-Line, Con-Cor, Athearn and Modeling Industry: lntermodal Modeling: Crude oil loading facilities YOll can model ..44 Walthers kits ................ ... ..... ............... .... 38 OOCL 20, 40 and 45-foot Containers from Modeling From The Prototype: Passenger Car Modeling: DeLuxe Innovations and Walthers kits .. 38 Photo Report on the Prototype Modelers Meet Lightweight and Heavyweight Duplex and in Kansas City, 1998 ..... ........... ...... ..... ... ..58 Roomette Cars from ll-lC/Rivarossi, Con- Locomotive Performance: Cor and Eastern Car WOI·ks kits ................ 46 Summary of All Previous Locomotive Update To Modeling Passenger Cars: Performance Test Reports ........ ....... ....55 our Corrections and additions to the passenger about what's in this issue, Modern Freight Car Modeling: fr om articles in previous issues ..........24 car series .... .......... ............................. ...54 Index of All Previous Articles on Modeling Calendar ............ .................... ..... ....... .......62 Locomotive Pel-formance: Modern Freight Cars ...... ...... ................64 What's New ..................... ........ ... .........56-57 Summary of All Previous Locomotive Performance Te st Repol1s ............... ... ..... 55 Modern Freight Car Modeling: Conrail 60-foot Box Car from EEL River Model Kit.. ............................................. ll Tndex of All Previolls Articles on Modeling Modern Freight Cars ......................... .... 64 RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 1998 3 ----------[PAINTING & DECALING ]---------- GRIAT NORTillRN40 fOOT BOX OW By Dua ne Buck Express box car 2543 is shown in Portland, Oregon in September 1973. Note that the originalTimken roller bearing trucks have been replaced with reg ular ASF-A3 freight trucks, indicating that the car has been removed from express service . •• • ,I�. rz' , • I: • •�. tlWTor..i'r.t': .fTT'ii' . r.; .1: "U . " . :Cj� •• . i__ • he Great Northern Car Shops in St. Cloud, Minnesota produced 6,489 of these 12- panel box cars during the 1948- I 959 period. The cars were produced in ten dif ferent numerical series. The primary rea son for the construction of these cars, starting in the late 1940s, was to replace the aging GN wood-sided box car fleet that was badly worn by years of heavy w3ltime usage. The new 12-panel steel cars were mainly used to haul grain. While these than the modern cars had a \esser capacity An InterMountain model modified to duplicate the Great Northern express box cars in the orange and hoppers, they had the advantage for use green paint scheme. on spurs and branchlines where light weight rail was commonplace. Often the over and over and often contained a card were overhauled every seven years, while upgrading of these tracks (to support board seal which could be broken to facil the national average was 11 years. heavier cars) was not practical from a itate the grain off-loading. Less common Throughout the lifetime of these cars, financial standpoint. Because of this use ly used was the cardboard grain door they received a wide variety of painting as grain haulers, wooden "grain doors" which was discarded after use. Prototype and lettering schemes. The schemes made of wooden planking were nailed to information and techniques for modeling included mineral red, vermillion red, the interior walls inside the steel doors. grain doors appeared in the November Glacier Green, and Big Sky Blue with a The grain doors would allow the regular 1990 and September 1992 issues of "The variety of Gothic, Slanted-Serif and steel doors to be opened without the grain Journal." Empire Builder-style lettering formats. flowing from the opening. The grain door Many of these cars lasted well into the Twenty-five of these cars were dedi was generally built to 3/4 of the door BN merger. This longevity was largely cated to express box car service. They opening height. These doors were used due to the GN overhaul policy. The cars were numbered in the 2525-2549 series 4 RAILMODEL)OURNAL' OCTOBER 1998 and were built in 1948, along with the 10900- 1 1 374 series. These cars were equipped with Timken tapered-roller bearing trucks fo r high speed safety on passenger and mail trains. The cars received the passenger, signal, air and steam lines. The early versions (1948- 1950) were painted in the mineral red scheme with black and white heralds and white lettering. The cars were then repainted (1950-1955) with dark Pull man Green sides, ends and roof and black trucks and underframes. The green cars had yellow, red and white heralds, yellow lettering and 3-inch circular silver Scotchlite reflectors. Starting in 1955, the cars were repainted in the orange and green scheme with black and white her alds, green and white lettering and 5x 10- inch rectangular silver Scotchlite reflec tors. Tw enty-two of the express box cars Car 18149 was photographed at Portland, Oregon in 1973 still displaying its original paint scheme survived into the BN. Numbers 2525 and from 1949. 2526 were rebuilt into heater cars 8 and 9 in March and April 1952. Number 2545 was retired from the GN roster in 1965. Of the 12-panel box cars shown in the table below, only those built in the 1948- 1952 time frame will be addressed in the remainder of this article. This is due to the availability of models for, or of mod els that can be easily modified to repre sent the 1948- 1 952 cars and because of significant external differences in the later cars (sills, dimensions, etc.). Whi Ie the InterMountain car most accurately represents the 18000- 1 8499 series, its external configuration is virtu ally identical to all of the series built in 1948, 1949 and 1951. One exception worthy of note is the small top rib on each car end which are missing on the 10900-l l374 series cars and the 2525- Car 20702 was photographed in Portland in December 1973 with its original mineral red paint and 2549 series express box cars. The 20500- gothic-style lettering. This car is 4 inches taller than the other cars addressed in this article. 21449 series cars built in 1952 were increased in external height by 4 inches over the previously built cars. A model for this latter series was built by C&BT Shops in 1991 as a special run for the Great Northern Railway Historical Society. With all of these things behind us, let's get to the fun part. That is, building these great cars. The HO Scale Models At th e time of this writing, InterMountain had released the l2-panel box cars in fi ve paint and lettering schemes. They include the original min eral red, vermillion red with two differ ent lettering styles-the Slanted-Serif and the Empire Builder formats, the Glacier Green with Slanted-Serif white An InterMountain car painted and lettered in the dark Pullman Green scheme to match the 2525- lettering, and Big Sky Blue colors. 2549 series of express box cars. RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 1998 5 Car 20059 in Glacier Green with the modern style lettering and herald.