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For the justly-famous Milwaukee rib-side boxcars, there
is a comprehensive and profusely illustrated article by Pat
Wider in Railway Prototype Cyclopedia (Vol. 13, 2006, pages
1–75). These cars were built over a span from 1937 to 1950.
Ultimately, the Milwaukee would build over 12,000 box and
automobile cars with this distinctive rib-side design. My model,
a Rib Side Cars version of the most common 40-foot cars, is
MILW 23145, is from a group of 1000 cars built at Milwaukee
shops in 1945, numbered 22188–23187 (2).
Another pair of boxcars I’ve chosen is from the Baltimore &
Ohio. The B&O owned the sixth largest non-hopper freight
car fleet in 1950, right behind the Milwaukee Road, as shown
in that December 2011 column. The B&O built a series of box
cars called “wagon top” cars, a unique design to the B&O, in
2: The Milwaukee Road owned quite a few 40-foot and
50-foot versions of their distinctive rib-side boxcars, of
which this model represents just one example. It is a
product of Rib Side Cars, in a ready-to-run styrene form.
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