B2 40 foot USRA box car

B2 40 foot USRA box carUSRA 40 foot box car HO kit with trucks and magnetic couplers. Forty foot boxcars, and their 33 and 36 foot long predecessors, dominated the Great Northerns car fleet for decades. They were used to haul anything that had to be protected from the weather. Grain was the traffic that paid the GNs bills and grain was hauled in boxcars. Grain originated from Montana east of the Rocky Mountains eastward along the entire railway to the Minneapolis, and from

a freight only structure that housed the Freight Agent and the Section Foreman’s speeder

RS-328 - Memories of the GN on the Hannah Line

RS-24 - GN Depots

90-ton capacity

The 40’ 6” IL and six-foot-wide doors would become GN and industry standard dimensions until the end of production of 40-foot box cars

in June of 1923 GN created the wholly owned subsidiary Western Fruit Express as a private car line

Great Northern was the last major railroad to adopt all steel box car construction

the son of a Great Northern trainman

the railroads work

WA 1924 to 1970

“On the Advertised”

features optic style lettering