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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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