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Articles on Prototypes
of S Scale Rolling Stock
Rev. Jan. 26, 2002

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Title	Author	Magazine	Issue	Summary
			2002
			2001
1930 Steel Box Car	Jeffrey Koeller	Mainline Modeler	July	Use the AF boxcar, of similar size, as a stand-in for these cars.
			2000
			1999
50'  AAR Double Door Boxcar	Ed Hawkins	RMJ	August	Earl Tuson reports that many of the boxcars in this article can be modeled using the Pacific Rail Shops kit, which has the 5-8 side panels, late improved dreadnaught ends, and diagonal panel roof.
			1998
American Flyer  cars in HO scale	Marty McGuirk	Model Railroader	January pp. 156-158	"...when the A.C. Gilbert Co. of New Haven, Conn., based its toy passenger cars on the New Haven's cars, the prototypes earned the American Flyer nickname."
Modeling 70-ton former  Railbox cars in S scale.	Randy  Wilson	Model  Railroader	March p. 132	Photos of Railbox cars as repainted since 1982, featuring American Models' Railbox boxcars,  and Des Plaines Hobbies detail parts..
Patching up X29 Boxcars	Bill  Darnaby	Model  Railroader	Nov. p.117	"Rub-on metal foil easily represents side repair panels."  Prototype for AF boxcar.
			1996
1937 AAR 40-foot Box Cars	Ed Hawkins	Rail Model Journal	8/96, 10/96, 12/96
			1994
1937 AAR 40-foot Box Cars -  Part II	Richard Hendrickson	Rail Model Journal	June 1994
			1991
The 1947 Empire Builder	Andy  Sperandeo	Model  Railroader	Dec. pp. 108 - 123	I'm told that AM used this GN consist as the prototype for their lightweight passenger set (???).
1937 AAR 40-foot Box Cars Part I	Richard Hendrickson	Rail Model Journal	July 1991	Part 1, ACF Cars
			1990
East Broad Top Railroad  standard gauge  switcher No. 6	Deane  Mellander	RMC	Dec. pp. 88 - 95	"In 1907 the EBT ordered a new 0-6-0 from Baldwin...."  This engine kit produced in yr 2000 by Bill's Train Shop.
Pennsy's Truc-Train F39A	Jim Panza	RMC	July  pp. 60-63	"Delivered in 1955"
			1989
1937 & 1942 AAR Standard  Box Car History, Part II	Richard  Hendrickson	Model  Railroading	April P. 44 - 49	Prototype for Pacific Rail 40' - 10' height boxcar.  American Models boxcar resembles these but has some features that are from later production.
The Fairbanks-Morse  Train Master	Jim Hediger	Model Railroader	March	In April 1953, Fairbanks-Morse introduced their classic H-24-66... 2400 HP... rode on 6 wheel trucks.
			1988
Pullman Standard PS-1 40-Foot Single-Door Box Cars, Part I		Model Railroading	Dec. p. 4	Index of previous articles / photos of PS-1  boxcars in Model Railroading.  Prototype for Trainstuff PS-1 boxcar.
NWX: Cars of the North  Western Refrigerator Line	Joseph Follmar	RMC	Dec. pp. 63 - 70	The SHS wooden reefer "...is modeled after the 40' wooden, end bunker, ice cooled refrigerator cars built for the NWX (Northwestern Refrigerator Line Company) 7000 -7999 series in 1928 by American Car & Foundry."
			1987
Jersey Central cabooses  in HO scale	Alan  Mende	Model  Railroader	May, p. 86	Jersey Central Lines Northeastern caboose
			1983
			1982
The ubiquitous  Northeastern caboose	Dick Steinbrenner	RMC	July p. 76	First of a three part look at the Reading designed Northeastern caboose.     See 1980 for more info.
			1980
Reading Steel Cabooses	Robert Berkley	RCT&HS	Winter 1980	Reading Company Tecnhical and Historical Soc.
Cabooses of the WM	Dwight Jones	Rails NE	Dec. 1980	Rails Northeast
			1979
Baltimore & Ohio  M-26	Jeff  Freeman	Prototype  Modeler	Apr.  p. 38 - 41	Similar to AF Pennsy X-29.  X-29 is prototype for AF boxcar.
Pennsylvaia X-29 Sand Car	Jeff  Freeman	Prototype  Modeler	Apr. p. 26 - 37	Excellent drawings for X-29 boxcar.
			1978
Pennsy X29 in O Gauge	Jeff Freeman	Prototype Modeler	Oct.  p. 24-33	Construction of riveted end version.
Pennsylvania's X-29 and  Other X's In The Family	Jack Amerine, Jeff Freeman	Prototype Modeler	Oct.  p. 6 -23	Includes photos of similar cars; SBC X-25, and similar ARA cars for NYC and LNE,