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All Door Box Car
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
No.5270-E
No.5270-05
All Door Box Car
Ford
No information available regarding this car, but one might assume it was part of a promotional
train set.
All Door Box Car
Ralston Purina
No.5270-06
No.12034
All Door Box Car
Ray-O-Vac Batteries
No.5270-F
Though it may also have been a regular stock offering from AHM, there is a Ray-O-Vac Batteries
promotional train set offering that includes this car. The Ray-O-Vac set has been seen with AHM's C424 dressed in Spirit
of '76 as part of the set contents.
All Door Box Car
Santa Fe
No.5270-07
No.12032
All Door Box Car
Southern
No.5270-B
No.12031
All Door Box Car
Southern Pacific
No.5270-C
All Door Box Car
Union Pacific
No.5270-D
No.12033
Above is the box flap from AHM's 5270-series run of All Door Box
Car models. As noted on the box, the car was produced for AHM in Taiwan for this release.
The first appearance of the All Door Box Car in the AHM line would appear to be early 1973.
Railroad Model Craftsman includes this All Door Box Car and the Coil Car from AHM in its Test Track column in the January
1973 issue of the magazine. A Southern Pacific All Door is pictured in the review. The magazine states the model
follows the Southern Railway's prototype and is available from AHM decorated for Southern, SP, UP and DT&I with a retail
of $2.98 each.
Concurrent with the AHM release of the All Door Box Car, both Bachmann and Life-Like marketed
very similar examples. Below you'll find the Bachmann All Door Box Car and the Life-Like model pictured, you may click
on either image to be taken to those respective sites and information regarding those company's issues of this freight car.
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