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The demand to carry timber products was greater than the supply of available railroad cars for this specific purpose. Due to a shortage of available cars, box cars not specifically for the purpose for carrying lumber products were diverted, especially during the U.

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HO scale Lumber Load. Common car body configurations are one-box eg a van , two-box eg a hatchback and three-box eg a sedan designs. This built car was lettered with a Great Northern goat logo with black stripes along the sides. Burlington Northern's Western Fruit Express handled food products from the Pacific Northwest to the distribution points to Chicago and beyond. Check dealers for availability. Originally they were hand-loaded, but in more recent years mechanical assistance such as forklifts have been used to load and empty them faster. Status PayPal will debit your account immediately.

Russell saw an opportunity to acquire box cars without having to do so in the name of Southern Pacific for accounting purposes. The wholly-owned company, Evergreen Freight Car Corp. These Landis equipped cars were built in and carried numbers from to They lasted well into the late 90's before being repatriated to SP. Evergreen Freight Car Corp. They were equipped with inch end of cushioning device, moveable bulkheads to secure shipment and ft 6-in wide Youngstown plug doors.

Wheels of Time car will reflect these lettering details.

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The Southern Pacific brand continued replacing Rio Grande. In the s, the new speed lettering style was adopted as a tribute to the old Rio Grande speed lettering.

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It was probably in the mid to late s that the new logo design started to appear on these box cars. The dimensional data reflects the modern stenciling standards. These Golden West Service blue cars showed up in the s. The cars are stenciled Greenbrier which owns Gunderson. They typically carried non-perishable food products that need protection from changes in temperature, but not needing mechanical refrigeration. Model features realistic ride height, 6' and 8' Youngstown Plug Doors, Hydra-Cushion under frame, rivet details along the side body seams, metal wheels, knuckle magnetic couplers.

These were equipped with inch Hydra-Cushion devices and were insulated.

These cars carried non-perishable food products and beverages. These Plate C clearance cars had a volume capacity of around cu. A number of these WC lettered cars are used today working for their third owner, Canadian National. Link to a photo of this car. These cars had the RBWX reporting mark. This built car was lettered with a Great Northern goat logo with black stripes along the sides. They were well insulated to keep temperature constant and as the name suggest carried perishables and food products that didn't require special refrigeration.

This Western Fruit Express paint scheme reflects the post lettering and logo style which had a larger Great Northern goat herald without the stripes. The Western Fruit Express handled food products from the Pacific Northwest to the distribution points to Chicago and beyond.

During the early days of BN, it was common to see cars still with Great Northern paint but with re-stenciled reporting marks. Their mechanical designation of XLI means box-insulated loader equipped with securements or permanently attached movable bulkheads.

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They had inch end of cushioning devices in the draft gear and had 10'-6" wide Youngstown Plug Doors. Plug doors provided a tightly sealed compartment and flushed inside surface when door is closed eliminating the need for additional ladening to keep cargo in place. They carried food products which didn't need additional refrigeration.

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Model features realistic ride height, 10'-6" Youngstown Plug Door, detailed under frame, rivet details along the side body seams, metal wheels, body mounted couplers. These Plate C cars were insulated for carring non-perishable food products and beverages, and had a volumetric capacity of around cu. The "LD" labeling is SP's marketing slogan for attached bulkheads to keep cargo from shifting.

This is achieved is a design that pulls the base of a vehicle's A-pillars forward, creating an impression of spaciousness. Most light commercial vehicles and minivans are one-box designs. Two-box designs articulate a volume for engine and a volume that combines passenger and cargo volumes, e. Three-box designs are highly variable. The Renault Dauphine is a three-box that carries its engine in the rear and its cargo up front.

As with the third generation European Ford Escort also a hatchback , the third box may be vestigial.

And three-box styling need not be boxy: Car Design News calls the fluid and rounded Fiat Linea a three-box design [3] —and most examples of the markedly bulbous styling of the ponton genre are three-box designs. A three-box hatchback , the European Ford Escort. A three-box sedan , the Renault Dauphine. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.