B8 40 foot box car with Plug & Sliding door, Vermilion, sans-serif

B8 40 foot box car with Plug & Sliding door, Vermilion, sans-serifHO scale kit with trucks and magnetic couplers. This is a 40 steel box car with plug and sliding doors, GST B8, Vermilion with side facing goat and sans serif or Empire Builder lettering, car number 11886. Body is somewhat similar to GN 11880 11887. Stencil B53 P56 indicates car built in 1953 and painted in 1956. Built date and paint date are credible. After World War II boxcars became more specialized. Customers demanded wider doors so that they

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and evidently destroyed

The 30x30 houses looked very much like the older 16x32 foot houses with a 15x32 foot addition across the back

arriving there as backhaul cargo in iron ore ships

it includes construction and operational detail

This is a 40’ steel box car with plug and sliding doors

for mineral traffic

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