craftsman kits for boxcars including a Florence and Cripple Creek
that migrated to Pearl Harbor in WWII. Trout Creek Engineering
has a very good selection of boxcars for the Southern Pacific;
these are also wood craftsman kits. For eastern modelers, the
selection is slim with LaBelle producing the only Ohio River and
Western car. Tweetsie cars are produced by David Hoffman and
Mt. Blue has reissued the Train and Trooper 32’ car. Funaro and
Camerlengo offers a boxcar for the Cairo and Kanawha and both
the 150 series wooden East Broad Top boxcar and the steel East
Broad Top boxcar. If you can find them, Gloor Craft (Quality Craft)
made the East Broad Top boxcar 170, which was a composite car
having a steel underframe and wood sides.
HOn30
The manufacturers identified for HOn30 that are currently
available include Funaro and Camerlengo resin, Chivers
Finelines plastic, Railway Recollections resin one-piece casting,
4: Tweetsie off-center door boxcar. Speculation has
it that the cars were sized up from 28’ cars, leaving
the door where the center of the car would have been.
Johnny Graybeal collection.
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