Another road for which I have carefully chosen freight cars is
the Great Northern, whose freight car fleet was one of the top
15 in size, as I showed in my Dec. 2011 MRH column. Here I
will just mention two. A distinctive and eye-catching part of
the GN freight car fleet was the 1937 Association of American
Railroads (AAR) design, which GN chose to build with wood
side sheathing. My second choice was the postwar 12-panel
steel boxcars, of which GN built about 3500 cars.
Information on both of these cars, and many other GN freight
cars, is very nicely summarized in a book chapter about
GN freight equipment, by Richard Hendrickson and Staffan
Ehnbom; that chapter is in Patrick Dorin’s book,
Great Northern
Lines East
(Signature Press, 2001, Chapter 6). The wood-
sheathed AAR cars are described in Pat Wider’s article which
13: This model of a 12-panel Great Northern boxcar,
with a diagonal-panel roof, represents thousands of
such cars built by and for GN after World War II. It has
Pennsylvania Railroad (off-line) reweigh and repacking
data from a Sunshine decal set.
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