holding company for Mexican Petroleum controlled by the Los
Angeles oil baron, Edward Doheny.
Micro-Trains is
selling this 40’
double-sheathed
wood reefer. Ice
was used to cool
and help stabilize
explosives and
chemicals during
shipping. The N scale ready-to-run model is decorated for
HPCX- Hercules Powder Co., an important West Coast supplier
of dynamite.
Micro-Trains is
offering this 33’
twin-bay compos-
ite side hopper
with a removable
coal load. AC&F
built over 3000 of
these cars during WWII with the wood sides saving thousands
of pounds of steel. The design allowed the wood to be easily
replaced with steel siding after the war.
The prototype of
this Micro-Trains
new 50’ rib-side
boxcar was built
by National Steel
Car in 1979.
Among the spot-
ting features are the large plug door, the nearly flat aluminum
roof, and the box corrugated non-terminating ends.
