[HO] Accurail prototypes

Oct 08, 2003 1 Replies

Here's a list of Accurail models and their corresponding prototypes (if any) that I am aware of. Can you help fill in the blanks?

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#2000 ACF 3-Bay Hopper Burlington Northern cars built in 1982. (4600 cu.ft.?)



#2300 Canton Car Co. Coal Hopper ?



#2500 USRA Coal Hopper New York Central 55-ton cars.



#2700 Wood Side Coal Hopper ?



#2800 Panel Side Coal Hopper ?



#3000 40' Steel Double-Door Box Cars built by Great Northern, ca. 1956. Roof and fishbelly side sills of GN 3000-3499 built 1955 and the sides and double 6' doors of GN 3500-3999 built in 1956.



#3100 40' Plug Door Boxcar Cars built for Soo Line, builder unknown, possibly home builds.



#3200 AAR 40' Steel Box Cars 1944 AAR, 10'-6" height, 1/3/4 late improved dreadnaught ends.



#3400 40' PS-1 Boxcar ?



#3500 40' Single Door Boxcar ?



#3600 40' Double Door Boxcar ?



#4000 Wood Outside Braced Box Cars Canadian National 500500-503499 cars built 1923.



#4100 40' All-Wood Boxcar ?



#4200 Wood Outside Braced Box Cars W/ Steel Ends Grand Trunk Western 1 1/2 door auto cars rebuilt with single doors after reassignment to CN.



#4300 Wood Boxcar-Steel ends ?



#4400 Wood Outside Braced Box Cars W/ Steel Ends & Doors ?



#4500 Wood Boxcar-Steel Doors/Ends ?



#4600 40' DS Wood Boxcar ?



#4700 40' Wood Stock Car ?



#4800 40' Wood Reefer Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) cars rebuilt by FGE in the late 1930's, early 1940's.



#5000 Single Door AAR Boxcar ?



#5100 Plug Door AAR Boxcar ?



#5200 Double Door AAR Boxcar ?



#5300 Combo Door AAR Boxcar ?



#5600 Exterior Post Modern Boxcar ACF 5080 cu.ft. car



#5700 Single Door Welded Boxcar ?



#5800 Plug Door Welded Boxcar ?



#5900 Double Door Welded Boxcar ?



#7000 6-Panel All-Wood Boxcar Closest match are several groups of Illinois Central cars built in the early twenties by Haskel & Barker, Western Steel Car Co, and ACF.



#7100 6-Panel Wood/Steel Boxcar Illinois Central 176000 - 176999, built in 1927 by Pullman.



#7500 70-Ton Triple Hopper ?



#8900 89-Foot TOFC Piggyback Flatcar Bethlehem Steel 89' piggyback flat.



#9200/9300 89' Open Auto Racks (Bi-Level / Tri-Level) Bethlehem Steel 89' piggyback flat with Paragon rack built in the 1960's.


GN 73000-73099 Blt 1929 by Canton Car Co, Canton OH on AFE # 43111 along with 50 8K gal. tank cars.

GN 73100-73199 Blt 1930 by Canton Car Co, Canton OH on AFE # 43112 "These cars were obtained from J.H. Grace Co of Chicago on a rental purchase plan under which the GN Equipment Co. paid $50 per car per month for 31 months"

GN rebuilt 30 of these cars (73765-73794) in 1957 for zinc concentrate service by cutting down the sides, adding a roof and new outlets. A further 15 were done in 1964 (73985-73999).

Info is from GNRHS Reference sheet #309 (Dec 2002)

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