12: Boxcar 430 still under construction. The model has
truss rods to be added, along with other finishing details.
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The boxcars were numbered in the 400 series, however you have
to be very careful when choosing numbers for the modeled cars,
as they weren’t numbered in any specific order, and you might
put a wrong number on the wrong type of car. As an example of
this, 418 is a 36’ boxcar and 419 is a 32’ boxcar, as is 420. Yet 421
reverts back to 36’. All Linville River boxcars were 36’ cars.
Linville River 4
In December, 1916, the ET built 10 boxcars for the Linville River,
which they had acquired from the W.M. Ritter Lumber Company
in 1913. The 10 cars were 37’ long; the ET called them 36’ cars
because of the internal usable space. These cars, as well as other
ET boxcars, are readily recognizable by the offset door. If you
take a measurement, you will find that the doors are centered
