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I N HO S CALE FROM ATHEARN' S G ENE S I S KIT
B y J i m Eager
The vast majority of the box cars still rolling on the rails were built during the seventies. You can duplicate most of these cars in HO, N, S or 0 scale. Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of these articles on the Berwick-built cars appeared in the January, February, March and April 2001 issues of "The Journal." Part 1 o f the FMC series, illustrating the early cars, appeared in the June 2000 issue, and Part 2, illustrat ing the Plate B cars that can be modeled in N scale with Micro-Trains models, appeared in the August 2000 issue. Parts 3, 4 and 5, illustrating more of the single-door and double-door Plate C cars, appeared in the September, October and November 2000 issues. Previous articles in this series began with Part I, in the December 1 999 issue, that included a history of the "Box Car Boom" of the seventies and Part II, also in the December 1 999 issue, and Parts III and IV in the January and February 2000 issues, illustrated and described the ACF-built cars and the matching HO, S, 0 and Z scale models. Part V in the March 2000 issue, began the coverage of cars built by Pullman-Standard with , the early cars, most of which can be duplicated with Walthers kits. Part VI, in the April 2000 issue, illustrat ed most of the Pullman-Standard cars that can be duplicated with the MDC HO and N scale kits. The Pullman Standard cars in the May 2000 issue can be duplicated with Athearn's new 5344-series HO scale kits. The ear liest of these Pullman-Standard cars with diagonal-panel roofs can be kit-converted from MDC kits as described by Bob Rivard for his MNS model in the May 2000 issue. There's an index of all previous articles on modeling modern freight cars on our website at ww.railmodeljournal.com w

P&lE 39748, series 39500-39999, built by SIECO in May 1975 The Pittsburgh & lake Erie bought 500 8-panel cars from SIECO in 1975, sold off as the P&lE self-destructed in the 1980s. -John Benson pmlw,'l.av HO Scale Decals: 87-335

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