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His· story begins 01<'1 Locomotive Perfonnance: Locomotive Performance: page 30. -Robert Sohleicher phGto on the Summary of an preMious locomotive Summary of all previous lacom.otive Midwest Mod�U-Track Layout Performance Test Reports ................. 47 Performance Test Reports .................47 DEPARTMENTS: ALL SCALES: Calendar ............................................64 Techniques What's New ...........................;.55, 65-6.7 Create photo mural backd�ops, by Charles C Haf'/t)antas..... ..............60 4 RAILMODEL OURNAL' DECEMBER 1999 Techniques: Create Photo mural Backdrops, page 60 HO SCALE: f!!'-a- fnigfltCar Mealing: Layout Tour: SO-flDClt IPDkRailbmc and others from the batcar hooll1ll of thes:eNemisk Modeling the Western Pacific byJim fag,eT ••••••• __• __•• _ ............ _ •••• 6 in HO scale, page 40 ACF 50-flDClt (PD. Ra� and others firom Athearnand Aeou/aill kits. 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DECEMBER 1999 5 [PAINT & DECALS] ------------ FROM THE BOX CAR BOOM OF THE 70s, PART I: 60,000 BOX CARS TO MODEL By Jim Eager The vast majority of the box cars still rolling on the rails were built during the seventies. You can duplicate most of these cars in HO, N, S or 0 scale. Part II, in this issue, describes and illustrates the ACF­ built cars. Part III, in the January issue, will continue with more of the ACF-built cars. Southern series 14000-15675, NS class B-182, former RBOX class XPF11, built by Pullman-Standard in 1975. Because of the resulting glut of box cars, in 1983 11,100 Railbox cars were also transferred to nine Class 1 railroads, like this hastily restencilled Southern car.-Jim Eager photo, November 1983 etween 1974 and 1981, well over 60,000 gener­ al- purpose, 50-foot box cars were con­ structed for Class 2 raill'Oads, shortlines, and the Railbox fleet-plus tens of thou­ • • \1-.' ..... } \, sands of similar cars built for Class 1 �- -. '��.'-:;,. �:-::,": built by FMC in,luly 1977. • ,...... ' ''-::'_ railroads during the same period! This e p MTW 4285 is representative of the.more than 6:0,000 gen ral-jiur ose, exterior-post box cars built between . turned out to be the last great hurrah of i l' 197;. • '.t ,· :\ 4..and 1981. Most, like thiS one, were built for shortlines, but identical car.s·were built.tor arge Class a x � the common box car in North America ",roads arid tor R ilbo a� well. -Ken Annett photo, i978', and almost all of these cars are still in service today, albeit working for second not a box car, after alL Since the cars All About IPO Box Cars or third owners in many cases. were built by several different car­ Most of the cars we'll be looking at Nearly aU of the box cars built during builders over a number of years, there are were built in response to a serious short­ this boom were of single-sheathed, exte­ numerous differences in their construc­ age in the number of general-purpose rior-post construction. At first glance tion-some of them obvious, some sub­ box cars that were available for loading, they all look roughly similar, but as is tle. Telling them apart can indeed be either under the ICC's Incentive Per often the case, first impressions can be challenging without a road map, so that's Diem (IPD) regulations, or for Trailer deceiving. A box car is not a box car is the purpose of this series of articles. Train's Railbox subsidiary. I'm sure most 6 RAILMODELjOURNAL'D ECEMBER 1999 B&O series 482800-482849, built by Pullman­ Standard in November 1968. The majority of cars built through the latter 1960s were double-sheathed cars, many specially equipped with load-restraining devices, such as B&O 482841, which has DFB bulkheads and an offset plug door to provide a flush interior wall. Such XML or XL cars were in assigned service rather than being used as free runners. -Gary Zuters photo, July 1988 SP series 699200-699499, class B-70-50, built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1970. SP 699229 is typical of the large number of insulated loader-equipped box cars (RBLs) that were also con­ structed during the 1960s. Such cars were assigned to pools hauling groceries, beverages, and other temper­ ature-sensitive products. -Jim Eager photo, September 1981 In contrast, in 1970, 35% of the nation's fleet of gen­ eral purpose XM box cars were over 20 years old, and over 40% were obsolete 40-footers.