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article about the 1923 car designs is available from Pat Wider,
in Railway Prototype Cyclopedia (Vol. 18, 2009, pages 1–113),
with an entire section within that article about just the B&O
M-26 cars (pages 61–79). My model is a Red Caboose styrene
kit, lettered with Speedwitch decal set D117.1, which is espe-
cially for M-26 cars, including subclasses A, B and C. Mine is
numbered within the M-26 car series 265000–266999, built
by Pullman in 1925. The trucks, doors, AB brakes, and letter-
ing represent replacements in later years. Of the original 2000
M-26 cars, 1952 cars were still in service in 1951.
Not every set of signature cars need be entirely boxcars.
Denver & Rio Grande Western was a railroad with a fleet
smaller than most of the roads described in this column, with
4: A vitally important D&RGW boxcar group, cars
66000–67499, remained a central part of the railroad’s
fleet of boxcars into the 1950s. This one was built from a
Westerfield resin kit, with Kadee Vulcan trucks.
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