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| Kevin Smith's MDC Roundhouse model offered decades ago. Kevin Smith photo. |
Your post spurred a few memories on my end.
Back in the early 1980's while I was living in Vermont and working for the Green Mountain, I began to get "serious" about understanding & modeling freight cars. This included photographing particular cars to copy in HO scale. About this time, CN had acquired a series of ABOX 1 1/2 door cars from Railbox for lumber loading, patched out with CNA reporting marks and 553000 number series. They began showing up regularly on the CV Conn. River trains, and we even hauled a few on the GMRC.
RMC came out with a string of articles over the next few months, chronicling these cars, their move to CN and later repainted to brown CNA colors.
MDC Roundhouse released a patched CNA car in HO, which immediately joined my roster and is still in service on the pike. The later RMC article of the brown repaint resulted in the purchase of an undecorated car and appropriate Herald King decals. I purchased a much later offering of the brown CNA car by MDC. It is still here somewhere in a box. Further on in time, CN rebuilt many of those cars with single, 12 foot plug doors.
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| As was first seen on the CV and GMRC in Vermont, Kevin Smith photo. |
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| The repainted boxcar seen in Vermont. Kevin Smith photo |
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