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40-foot Box Car
Alton & Southern
No. 5241-H
40-foot Box Car
Baltimore & Ohio Time Saver
No.
5241-L
40-foot Box Car
Bangor & Aroostock
No. 5241-D
40-foot Box Car
Boston & Maine
No. 5241-G
No. 5233
The red boxed Boston & Maine example was AHM stock number 5241-G. The blue
boxed model carried stock number 5233. Both appear to share the same tooling and same lettering.
40-foot Box Car
Burlington Northern
No.
5241-I
40-foot Box Car
Chattahooche Valley
No.
5241-K
40-foot Box Car
Chesapeake & Ohio
No. 5241-M
This interesting AHM release appears based on the C&O's mid-1950s experimental
"Cameo" paint scheme.
40-foot Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande
No. 5241-B
No. 5298-E
40-foot Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande -Cookie Box
No. 5241-15
40-foot Box Car
Evergreen
No.
5241-J
40-foot Box Car
Florida East Coast
No. 5223
No. 5241-E
40-foot Box Car
Great Northern
No. 5232
This orange and green "Empire Builder" scheme Great Northern car pre-dates the Big Sky
Blue example, both in the prototypical world and in AHM's universe. Cars carrying individual stock numbers with no dash-suffix
numbering are generally the original release offerings from AHM.
40-foot Box Car
Great Northern
No. 5241-C
40-foot Box Car
Green Bay & Western
No.
5222
No. 5241-F
40-foot Box Car
Western Maryland
No. 5229
This AHM 40-foot sliding door box car was a product of Taiwan. The
tooling very closely resembles that found in the 1970s Lionel-HO line and Bachmann's example available since the early 1970s.
Kader operated a plant in Taiwan during the time this car appeared in the AHM catalog. I would speculate that this car,
like others in the line, was produced by Kader for AHM. Kader is the parent company of Bachmann.
The trucks are held to the underframe of the car with a plug. The coupler housing is a large
box design, again similar to some Lionel-HO and Bachmann examples of the 1970s. The origin mark is located on the center
beam of the underframe and reads AHM and TAIWAN. The car featured separate doors, roofwalk, and brakewheel.
AHM catalog a dozen roadnames in the 5241 series set. The retail price was $2.49 for this car.
The same or very similar tooling is also found in the AHM line for its 12000 series 40ft. sliding door box cars sold beginning
in the early 1980s. I have also found examples sharing what appears to be this same tooling in a prior release for what seems
to be the early 1970s.
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