Features

• State-of-the-art, highly-detailed tooling
• Add-on details include ladders, grab irons, etc.
• Four different end styles: 4/4, Early and Late Improved Dreadnaught or "Dartnot"
• Two different roofs: straight or diagonal panel
• Three different door openings: 6 ft, 7 ft and 8 ft
• Superior or Youngstown doors
• Seven- or eight-rung ladders
• Free rolling trucks with blackened metal wheelsets
• Carefully researched prototypical paint schemes

Spurred by the postwar business boom and in an effort to replace worn out equipment, North American railroads built large numbers of 40-foot box cars to the AAR standard designs beginning in 1945. Prototypes were built with different combinations of roof styles, ends and doors.