Bangor & Aroostook
Road Number BAR 5639

This 50’ rib side boxcar with single door and no roofwalk is painted red with white and red logo and white lettering. It was built in September 1981 and runs on black Barber® roller bearing trucks. In 1891, the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR) was incorporated as it combined the Bangor and Piscataquis RR and the Bangor and Katahdin Railroad. In 1893, a BAR train operated to Houlton. One year later, the main line reached Caribou and the branch to Fort Fairfield was completed. By 1905, connections were made to Patten, Limestone, Ashland, and Van Buren. Also in that year, the railroad extended to the deep-water port of Searsport.
P/N 25260

Canadian National
Road Number CN 289004

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This 50’ standard boxcar with plug door and no roofwalk is painted light grey with two large blue bands to the right of the door. Lettering is done in black with black end print. CN 289004 was originally built in April 1965 by National Steel Car Company from an earlier series insulated boxcars. In January of 1981, to combat high energy costs, CN Rail’s Montreal car shops in Point St. Charles, Quebec, took five cars from the 283 series, removed their heating equipment, improved their insulation and renumbered them into the XPI “SuperTherm” 289 series. All five cars were off the roster by October 1994.
P/N 38330

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Road Number CB&Q 194328

This 33’ twin bay hopper with composite sides is painted hopper red with white sides and end lettering. The square Burlington Route logo is white lettering on a black box. Built in July 1942 and serviced in Havelock, Nebraska in March 1959, CB&Q 194328 was an answer to the steel shortage during World War II. It’s composite design, developed by the AAR, employed wood sides with steel bracing. There were 990 of these cars numbered into the #194000-194999 series still in service in 1961. Many were shopped in Havelock in ’59 & ’60 and were given their Mineral Red or Chinese Red schemes with the new Block Gothic lettering.
P/N 57020

Eastern States Farmers Exchange
Road Number ERDX 10060

This 40’ standard boxcar with plug door and roofwalk is painted dark green with black ends and roof. It is lettered in white with white logo. ERDX #10060 is one of 100 cars leased by Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (MDTX) to the Eastern States Farmers Exchange. These cars were common in New England in the 1950s. This class RB reefer has a capacity of 84,000 pounds and was repainted at East Rochester, NY, in November 1958. Eastern States Farmers Exchange was one of many farmers cooperatives created to help farmers survive the Great Depression of the 1930s. It now serves as a marketing association for New England farmers.
P/N 21420

Great Northern
Road Number GN 173813

This 2-bay ACF Center Flow® covered hopper with round hatches was built December 1966 by American Car & Foundry. It is painted gray with black lettering and read and black logo. It has a 200,000 lb capacity, an inside length of 34’-9”, and a height of 15’-1”. It could also be loaded with 2970 cu. ft. of Montana, North Dakota or Washington wheat.
P/N 92170

Minnesota State Car

This 40’ standard boxcar with plug door representing the state of Minnesota is car #5 of a 50-car series for each of the 50 states in the union. It is painted dark blue with aluminum sides and sports the showy lady’s slipper and the common loon, Minnesota’s official flower and bird. The flag of the state of Minnesota is in the background. The road number 1858 is the year Minnesota was admitted to the Union.
P/N 21360

Nickel Plate Road
Road Number NKP 85484



The General American Transportation Corporation built this 50’ boxcar with plug door in July 1960. It is painted boxcar red with white lettering and logo. It rolls on black Bettendorf trucks. The XMEI classification designates this as an insulated class XM boxcar designed for merchandise loading. The arrival of large numbers of the insulated boxcars not only took over much usage of refrigerator cars for non-cooled cargo, but actually expanded shipment of temperature-sensitive cargoes.
P/N 32080

Norfolk & Western
Road Number N&W 44324

This 40’ standard boxcar with single Youngstown door is painted box car red with white logo and lettering. Pullman Standard built it in June 1951. It runs on black Bettendorf trucks. The Norfolk & Western Railway has its roots in pre-Civil War Virginia, when three different railroads were built to connect the hinterlands with the Port of Norfolk. The N&W still exists as an integral part of Norfolk Southern Corporation. Between the 1850s and the present, the company went through a number of changes, mergers, and expansions spanning a century and a half. Beginning in 1838 with a nine-mile line from Petersburg, VA., to City Point, VA., N&W grew to a system serving 14 states and a province of Canada on more than 7,000 miles of road.
P/N 20606

Seaboard Coast Line
Road Number SCL 813557

This 40’ standard boxcar with single door is painted beige with red logo and black and white lettering. It was built in March 1965, serviced in April 1972 and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. Seaboard Coast Line was formed by the 1960s merging of Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and the Piedmont & Northern Railroads.
P/N 24160

Southern Pacific
Road Number SP 97950

This 40’ standard boxcar with single Youngstown door is painted black with white lettering and end print. The SP logos are red and yellow. SP 97950 was built in September 1946 by Mount Vernon Car Mfg. Company, Mt. Vernon, Illinois. It rolls on black Bettendorf trucks. The “Overnights” were all steel boxcars with steel wheels instead of cast to travel at passenger train speeds. They carried less-than-car-load merchandise in coordination with store door pickup and delivery trucks.
P/N 20090

United States Army
Road Number USAX 10936

This 39’ single dome tank car is painted black with white logo and lettering. It was built in March 1942 and serviced in June 1950. It runs on black Bettendorf trucks. USAX 10936 was used in service to the United States Army Transportation Corps during WWII and again in Korea, both domestically and overseas.
P/N 65370

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