Discussion of late on the STMFC list reminded me that I’d
done a couple of posts when the Rapido USRA Box Cars were released in 2017 and 2021.
As I model December 1944 and wanting cars extant in that
time period, I compiled listings of USRA box cars from the October 44 and January
1945 ORERs aided by tables in the excellent RPC articles on the DS and SS USRA
cars. Rapido did do a Santa Fe version,
but those were all rebuilt with steel sides by 1942, so no Bx-2s for me, regardless
of how well they were done. The prior
posts had tables of how many cars were listed for each road. For those of you modelling the WWII era,
links to those posts are below:
Double Sheathed https://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2017/11/building-wwii-atsf-fleet-vii-freight.html
Single Sheathed https://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-rapido-single-sheathed-usra-box-car.html
John Barry
Lovettsville, VA
15 August 2025
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