Accurail announces a 36′ DS boxcar MP is on the list

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  • November 20, 2015 at 2:54 am #5616
    Charles Duckworth
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      Accurail is bringing out a 36′ double sheathed boxcar. One will have steel ends and a fish belly underframe so perhaps we’ll have a plastic car that’s a close stand-in for the MP 120000 boxcars. The model is based on a NYC prototype but the photo looks pretty close to one of the MP cars.

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      November 20, 2015 at 3:50 am #7504
      Richard Ryker
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        Link to Accurail’s announcement.

        http://www.accurail.com/accurail/CATALOG/Accurail_36ft.pdf

        November 22, 2015 at 4:43 pm #7469
        David Boeschen
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          Might have some good potential for those forties-era bunk cars.

          I assume molded-on door and grabs, but at least grabs are easier to carve off than ladders are.

          Ron Merrick

          November 23, 2015 at 11:27 pm #7505
          anonymous

            Steel ends and fish belly pretty close then. Wood ends and fish belly not prototypical , right? I’m going to get quite a few of these cars.

            November 24, 2015 at 3:21 am #7506
            Charles Duckworth
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              @Patrick wrote:

              Steel ends and fish belly pretty close then. Wood ends and fish belly not prototypical , right? I’m going to get quite a few of these cars.

              Pat
              From the description it sounds like it’s very close to the MP 120000 series. Much easier than trying to find the old Sunshine Models resin kits and definely easier to build.

              November 24, 2015 at 3:54 am #7507
              anonymous

                Going to get several. Other roads too. Cool boxcars.

                November 24, 2015 at 8:37 pm #7511
                Charles Duckworth
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                  @Patrick wrote:

                  Going to get several. Other roads too. Cool boxcars.

                  Pat
                  I don’t recall your time period on your layout. After WW2 many of the Mopac’s 36′ boxcar fleet were down graded to MoW bunk, tool, foreman cars. In 1951 many were rebuilt into Eagle Merchandise cars.

                  November 24, 2015 at 10:06 pm #7512
                  anonymous

                    Generalized 1940’s.

                    November 24, 2015 at 11:01 pm #7513
                    Charles Duckworth
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                      @Patrick wrote:

                      Generalized 1940’s.

                      Mopac had a pretty good size fleet of these in the 1940’s so you could use 2-3 of them.

                      November 24, 2015 at 11:46 pm #7514
                      anonymous

                        Charlie are you going to use the ends and roof to make an Eagle Merchandise car?

                        November 25, 2015 at 1:58 am #7516
                        Charles Duckworth
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                          @Patrick wrote:

                          Charlie are you going to use the ends and roof to make an Eagle Merchandise car?

                          No, I have a Sunshine Models resin kit I built a couple of years ago. When the MP rebuilt these cars into steel cars they not only replaced the sides with steel panels but changed out the roof to a state of the art steel panel type.

                          October 20, 2016 at 5:57 pm #8118
                          anonymous

                            There is some discussion of MP prototypes for these cars in Ray Breyer’s datasheets which are available here:

                            http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/accurail-prototype-data/

                            See especially the datasheet for the 1300 series (steel end, fishbelly underframe) and the 1700 series (wood-end, fishbelly underframe) versions.

                            IGN and M&NA cars are also mentioned as possible kitbashes.

                            Bradley A. Scott

                            October 22, 2016 at 6:39 pm #8119
                            taustin316
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                              I’m thinking the fish belly underframes would be a great starting point for a couple of Sedalia Welded Steel Caboose projects, too.

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