CANADIAN NATIONAL 1937 AAR BOX CARS

 

 

CN-003

 

 

            Between 1938 and 1940, the Canadian National acquired 4700 similar all steel 40’ box cars from the Eastern Car Company and Canadian Car & Foundry.  Although generally built to the AAR standard design of the era, these cars had some distinctive features characteristic of the Canadian roads.  Foremost among these was a flat panel Murphy Solid Steel roof.  Unlike the roofs supplied for most US built box cars at the time, this design lacked the raised rectangular panels found between each carline.

            This kit is available in 10 versions.  Five different lettering styles are possible, and the cars came with either of two styles of trucks.  Refer to the list below to determine what version is appropriate for your modeling era.

            The kit contains a polyurethane resin roof, a Pacific Rail Shops undecorated shell with detail parts and trucks, PRS 8 rung ladders, CDS dry transfer lettering, car data with expanded instructions, and a few other bits and pieces required to build an accurate model of this prototype.

            This box car is also available as an unboxed conversion kit (see 500 series below,) for which the modeler must supply a PRS 10’ IH square corner post AAR box car kit.A polyurethane resin roof, PRS 8 rung ladders, CDS dry transfer lettering, car data with expanded instructions, and a few other bits and pieces are included.

 

            The CN-00x series of kits were originally released over a decade ago and are currently unavailable.   If sufficient preorders are received, I will consider putting these back into production.

 

 

Kit                   Description                                                                                                       Price

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CN-001             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, white leaf or no herald- 1938 to mid 50's, 8 rung

                        ladders, AAR trucks

 

CN-002             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, white leaf or no herald- 1938 to mid 50's, 8 rung

                        ladders, Nat B trucks

 

CN-003             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green tilted leaf- 1945 to late 80's, 8 rung ladders, AAR

                        trucks

 

CN-004             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green tilted leaf- 1945 to late 80's, 8 rung ladders, Nat

                        B trucks

 

CN-005             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green level leaf- 1954 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, AAR

                        Trucks

 

CN-006             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green level leaf- 1954 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, Nat B

                        Trucks

 

CN-007             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle- 1960 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, AAR trucks

 

CN-008             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle- 1960 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, Nat B trucks

 

CN-009             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle w/ wheat sheaf- 1979 to 1991, 8 rung

                        ladders, AAR trucks

 

CN-010             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle w/ wheat sheaf- 1979 to 1991, 8 rung

                        ladders, Nat B trucks

 

CN-501             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, white leaf or no herald- 1938 to mid 50's, 8 rung           Conversion

                        ladders, AAR or Nat B trucks

 

CN-503             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green tilted leaf- 1945 to late 80's, 8 rung ladders,         Conversion

                        AAR or Nat B trucks

 

CN-505             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, green level leaf- 1954 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, AAR or    Conversion

                        Nat B trucks

 

CN-507             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle- 1960 to 1991, 8 rung ladders, AAR or Nat    Conversion

                        B trucks

 

CN-509             AAR 10' IH steel box car, 1938-40 production, 4/5 S corner Dreadnaught ends,    $TBA

                        Murphy Solid Steel roof, wet noodle w/ wheat sheaf- 1979 to 1991, 8 rung            Conversion

                        ladders, AAR or Nat B trucks

 

 

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