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Box Car
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
No. T4009
Box Car
Great Northern
No. T4002
No.T4001
An early undated, but thought to be 1956, Revell foldout publication that might be the company's introductory
catalog lists the Great Northern Box Car as being Revell stock number T4001. No picture is provided. Interestingly,
this car is listed at $1.98, while its companion New Haven Box Car is $2.49 and includes a Hobo figure. Maybe the GN
was tougher on the freeloading hobo, than the New Haven was to them? Notice in the above picture of a Revell Great Northern
Box Car that the car's roadnumber matches the Revell stock number. Not an uncommon practice by model train makers, Lionel
comes to mind, though not usually too prototypical. Does help one determine a stock number on an item without a box
however.
Box Car
Minneapolis & St. Louis
No. T4005
Box Car
New Haven
No. T4003
No.T4004
The Revell New Haven Box Car is first shown as a black car with white bands in the 1956 catalog.
Actual production examples seen in later Revell catalogs featured a solid red New Haven Box Car. The model carries the
stock number T4003 for '56 and '57; switching to T4004 in 1958.
Box Car
Santa Fe
No. T4006
Box Car
Union Pacific
No. T4007
Suppose their could one out there, but did any line of HO-scale
trains not offer a 40-foot Box Car in its rolling stock selections? Revell was no exception and had a sliding door 40-foot
Box Car complete with a Hobo figure! For the 1957-58 catalog, Revell lists a pair of roadnames for this car (NH and
GN) selling for $2.98 each. Revell's 1958-59 catalog adds three new roadnames to the Box Car group (EJ&E, M&StL,
and UP) and the New Haven example switches stock number from T4003 to T4004. The New Haven car does not appear, at least
from catalog images, to have changed. The retail price listed in the 1958-59 catalog drops the Box Car to $1.98.
The Great Northern example is not listed as a separate rolling stock selection, however it is seen in the 1958-59 catalog
in the 0-6-0 Steam Loco And 3 Cars (No.T7101) train set.
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