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40' PS-1 Box Car
Atlanta & West Point
No. 5234
40' PS-1 Box Car
Atlantic & Danville
No. 5237
40' PS-1 Box Car
Alton & Southern
No. 5236
40' PS-1 Box Car
Bangor & Aroostook
No. 5226
40' PS-1 Box Car
Boston & Maine
No. 5233
40' PS-1 Box Car
Central of Georgia
No. 5220
40' PS-1 Box Car
Chesapeake & Ohio
No. 5486-C -1972 Release
40' PS-1 Box Car
Delaware & Hudson
No. 5230
The D&H example is the debut model from AHM for this 40ft. box car and it
dates to late 1961.
40' PS-1 Box Car
Erie Lackawanna
No.5227
40' PS-1 Box Car
Florida East Coast
No. 5223
40' PS-1 Box Car
Great Northern (box car
red)
No. 5225
40' PS-1 Box Car
Great Northern (green)
No. 5225
40' PS-1 Box Car
Green Bay & Western
No. 5222
40' PS-1 Box Car
Illinois Central
-1972 Release
40' PS-1 Box Car
Louisville & Nashville
No. 5224
40' PS-1 Box Car
Milwaukee
No. 5486-E -1972 Release
40' PS-1 Box Car
Pittsburgh & West Virginia
No. 5221
40' PS-1 Box Car
Reading
No. 5486-B -1972 Release
40' PS-1 Box Car
Santa Fe
No. 5231
40' PS-1 Box Car
Santa Fe
No. 5486-F -1972 Release
40' PS-1 Box Car
Toledo, Peoria & Western
No. 5228
40' PS-1 Box Car
West India Fruit
No. 5235
40' PS-1 Box Car
Western Maryland
No. 5229
No. 5486-G -1972 Release
Produced by Roco in Austria, this AHM offering is one of a variety of styles produced and sold
as a "40ft. Box Car" or more simply as "Box Car" in AHM catalogs. The car carries a $1.98 retail in a late 1960s catalog
and $2.98 retail in a 1977 price listing.
A new product review of the AHM PS-1 Box Car is included in the Trade Topics section of the May
1962 issue of Model Railroader. The review states, "the underbody is unusually well detailed with complete brake rigging
and simulated floor planking with wood grain."
This car debuts with only the Delaware & Hudson roadname and is pictured below in an ad found
in a December 1961 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman magazine.
The 1972 release of the car included revised tooling that featured black plastic separately applied ladders and roofwalk.
The door is also noted as being different, according to a release announcement in the October 1972 issue of Railroad Model
Craftsman magazine. The 1972 roadnames inlcuded: Reading, C&O, CB&Q, Milwaukee, ATSF, WM and IC. The retail was $2.98 in
1972.
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