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86131 NYC -Conrail double door single car $24.95. With the split of Conrail between Norfolk Southern and CSX looming, the road began marking cars destined for the CSX fleet with NYC reporting marks. Though few if any former New York Central cars still existed with their original numbers, the NYC reporting mark was still assigned to Conrail by the AAR. With the split of Conrail complete, the AAR reassigned the NYC reporting mark to CSX. Since receiving it’s Conrail paint, the right door was replaced with an unpainted aluminum door from another car.

86161 Pennsylvania single car $24.95. Delivered in 1966, this group of PRR cars was the largest batch ever delivered of this type of car. PRR had such a huge freight car fleet (over 112,000 cars of all types) that a typical mixed freight anywhere in the country was statistically certain to have some PRR cars in it!

86171 Penn Central ex-PRR single car $24.95. PC 237851 had been delivered in PRR paint but shortly after the 1968 Penn Central merger, the car was renumbered and the PRR keystone covered by the new PC logo. Apparently the PRR tuscan red was in too good a shape to warrant repainting the whole car green...

86181 Frisco single car $24.95; 86182 2-pack $49.90. Frisco served auto plants in Oklahoma and Missouri plus handled considerable bridge traffic from the Deep South to the Midwest and Southwest. The Frisco was acquired by Burlington Northern in 1980.

86191 Western Pacific single car $24.95. WP had a large Ford plant on line at Milpitas, California and forwarded parts from Midwestern parts plants to this facility. Since this group of cars was part of a large multi-plant pool, a number of WP cars could be seen moving parts between the South and Midwest as well.

86241 Norfolk & Western double door single car $24.95. This large batch was delivered in the Spring of ‘65 in this paint scheme. They were initially assigned for loading on the Chicago Heights Terminal & Transfer (now part of UP.)

86252 Central of Georgia double door 2-pack $49.90. This batch of CoG cars was delivered in the summer of ‘66 and were initially assigned for loading at a Ford’s Walton Hills plant in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.

87102 Pennsylvania quad door 2-pack $49.90. Pennsylvania received this group of quad-door cars in 1965 whereupon they were assigned to carrying Chevy body panels. GM, as a rule, preferred quad-door cars over their double door cohorts. Unlike most PRR double door cars, this batch of quad door cars had black ends (probably “car-cement” rather than black paint) and we are replicating this detail on our run.

86302 L&N Family Lines double door 2-pack $49.90. Louisville & Nashville received their last batch of 86' boxcars from Greenville in 1977. They were delivered in this Family Lines paint scheme. The Family Lines consisted of Seaboard Coast Line, L&N, Clinchfield, Georgia, Atlanta & West Point, and Western Railway of Alabama (the latter two were known together as The West Point Route.) SCL owned a significant block of L&N stock. The two together jointly owned the Clinchfield. L&N and SCL also jointly controlled the Georgia who in turn controlled the two West Point Route roads. So the Family Lines was not an encorporated entity but could be thought of as a shared marketing image. Beginning in 1983, L&N and SCL were merged as Seaboard System with the other Family Lines roads included as well. Seaboard System was already under the CSX Corp umbrella and about three years later Seaboard System changed its name to CSX Transportation.

Missouri - Kansas - Texas double door 86332 2-pack $49.90. After a number of troubled years, the Board of Directors at MKT brought in John W. Barriger III, a railroad turnaround specialist credited with saving the Monon and doing wonders for P&LE, to whip the Katy into shape. One of Barriger's priorities was to update the freight car fleet. This batch of Greenville 86' boxcars delivered in 1969 was a direct result of that program. Like neighbors MoPac and Frisco, Katy was in a position to serve auto assembly plants in the Sun Belt and contributed cars to (likely Ford) pools.

Canadian Pacific had 3,500 of these Offset Side cars. The script herald was adopted in the early 60s and survived in revenue service on some of these cars at least into the mid-80s. 73081 Canadian Pacific-Script Offset Side single $17.95.