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chose to specify the flat steel ends and roof characteristic of
the 1923 ARA steel-car design. Atlas recently produced a ready-
to-run version of all the 1932 ARA cars, including the correct
body for the Seaboard cars. I painted and decaled one of these
cars to obtain the best possible lettering, using the Speedwitch
Media decal set D103 (8).
The second car is a Pullman-Standard PS-1 car, probably the
most heavily-purchased postwar design. In March of 1952,
Seaboard received 500 of these cars, numbered 25000–25499,
and among their noteworthy features was an eight-foot
door opening, contrasting with the then-standard six-foot
door. These cars are described in Edward S. Kaminski’s book,
8: This model portrays the Seaboard’s version of the
1932 ARA all-steel boxcar. The car carries the road’s
“Orange Blossom Special” lettering and the plain
railroad medallion. It is a repainted Atlas styrene
model with decal lettering, an Ajax brake wheel, and a
replacement wood running board.
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Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900–1960
(Signature Press,
2007, page 68). I used a ready-to-run Kadee PS-1 car for
this, but repainted it and decaled it myself, with the same
Speedwitch decal set, D103. The slogan on these cars was “The
Route of Courteous Service (9).”
The Seaboard is a good example of a railroad for which there are
other, equivalently good choices for signature cars, such as the
distinctive round-roof boxcars in Seaboard’s Class B-7 (and the
automobile cars in classes AF-1 and AF-2). As I’ve already stated,
the choices described in this column are my personal ones, and
I would never claim that everyone should chose the same ones.
As a modeler learns more about the signature freight cars of rail-
roads other than his home road, the selection of cars to model
9: The 1952 order of PS-1 boxcars by Seaboard
included an 8-foot door, at the time an unusually large
door opening. By this time, Seaboard had introduced
the red heart in the railroad medallion. The model is a
Kadee car, repainted and with decal lettering.
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