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service in 1953. Considerable information about the entire NP
freight car fleet exists in a chapter by Richard Hendrickson, to
be published in a forthcoming book by Patrick Dorin, entitled
Northern Pacific Lines East. My postwar NP car was built from a
Branchline kit (7).
I’ve also chosen a pair of Seaboard Air Line boxcars for my
fleet. One of them is an example of the 1932 ARA design,
of which Seaboard was the second biggest buyer. The com-
plete story of the 1932 boxcars is told in Ted Culotta’s book,
The American Railway Association Standard Box Car of 1932
(Speedwitch Media, 2004). Seaboard’s purchase of 2000 of
these cars, numbered 17000–18999, was second only to the
Missouri Pacific (and subsidiaries). The Seaboard cars are an
interesting variation of the 1932 design, because the railroad
7: This example of a Northern Pacific postwar boxcar
has the black roof and ends typical of practice at that
time, and is being spotted in a switching move. It was
built from a Branchline styrene kit.
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