Seaboard B8 & B9 - 1
The prototype
D
uring the Great
Depression, when
many railroads were
scaling back operations and
trying to make ends meet
on shoestring budgets,
Seaboard’s savvy receivers
expertly used bankruptcy
protection to extensively
modernize the railroad’s
physical plant, passenger
train fleet, main lines, and
train control systems.
A fun and easy HO
scale prototype
modeling project ...
– By John Golden
Photos by the
author
MODELING
Seaboard
B-8 and B-9
Box cars
1. The completed Seaboard
B-9 19794 in HO.
1
MRH-Jun 2014
