Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 4 AAR box car lettering Frt car trucks Reefe Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 4 Pages 1-34 The author discusses the A.A.R. requirements for box car lettering and how the railroads followed those standards (or deviated from them). Shown are box cars of all types, including 40' and 50', single and double sheathed wood side cars, all-steel cars, single door and automobile box cars. In addition to details about capacity and dimensional data, this article provides numerous photos displaying monograms and slogans that were stenciled on box cars. Pages 35-51 Freight car trucks From Arch Bar trucks to Roller Bearings, Richard Hendrickson discusses the development of freight car trucks from the early 1900s through the 1950s. Included are examples of the most common freight car trucks used plus a few that were not so common. Examples of high-speed trucks, heavy-duty trucks, and caboose trucks are also shown. Pages 52-70 NWX 40 ft AC&F ReefersThe North Western Refrigerator Line purchased more than 3,000 AC&F-built wood refrigerator cars during the 1920s, '30s, and 1940. The article presents a roster of the cars and a substantial number of NWX prototype photos as well as the associated Western Refrigerator Line (Green Bay and Western). Many of the NWX cars were originally built with "billboard" lettering and were rolling advertisements for various dairy and poultry companies located in the upper Midwest. Accurate scale models of the prototype cars are available from Westerfield in HO scale. After Volume 4 was published, Branchline Trains released a version of these AC&F-built cars as an HO scale styrene plastic kit, accurate for NWX cars built 1927-1931 Pages 71-85 Phosphate Covered Hopper Cars During the early 1930s, the Seaboard Air Line developed a new covered hopper design for the transport of phosphate rock. Soon thereafter, the Atlantic Coast Line developed a similar, but different design. Later, Shippers Car Line also owned a quantity of phosphate covered hopper cars for leasing purposes. Wabash purchased some second-hand during the early 1950s. This article provides prototype information and photographs on these unique covered hopper cars. Roster information is also provided as well as a sample diagram Pages 86-96 1935 AAR 50 ton hopper cars The series is continued with 50- and 60-ton cars of the A.A.R. Standard and Alternate Standard twin offset design used by railroads of the Appalachian region, including the C&O, B&LE, C&I, Montour, P&S, P&WV, and W&LE. All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges Postage rates quoted are for shipments to the US only. Ebay Global shipping charges are shown. These items are shipped to Kentucky and then ebay ships them to you. Ebay collects the shipping and customs / import fees. For direct postage rates to these countries, send me an email. Shipping to Canada and other countries varies by weight. Payment options Payment must be received within 10 days. Paypal is accepted. Terms and conditions All sales are final. Returns accepted if item is not as described. Contact us first. No warranty is stated or implied. Please e-mail us with any questions before bidding. Thanks for looking at our items.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Talbott, Tennessee
End Time: 2024-05-13T01:13:46.000Z
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