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All Door Box Car
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Box Car -40ft Metal 5238
Box Car -40ft PS-1
Box Car -40ft Rivarossi 5279
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Box Car -50ft Combination Door
Box Car -50ft Double-Plug Door
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Calcium Carbide Car
Cattle Car -40ft. -1st Version
Cattle Car -40ft. -2nd Version Roco
Cattle Car -40ft. -3rd Version Hong Kong/Taiwan
Center Flow Hopper
Coil Car
Container Carrier
Covered Hopper -47ft.
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Flat Car with 2 Autos
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Flexi-Flow Hopper
Gondola -Old Time
Gondola -40ft
Gondola w/Load -40ft.
Gondola -50ft. Outside Braced
Gondola -50ft.
Gondola 50-foot -Hong Kong
Helium Carrier
Hopper Car -40ft Open
Hopper -50ft. Ribbed Side
Horse Car -Old Time
Log Car
Palace Stock Car
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Reefer -40ft Private Owner
Reefer -41ft
Reefer -50ft. Outside Braced
Reefer -50ft. Smooth Side
Reefer -50ft Thermo King
Stock Car -50ft.
Stock Car -Old Time
Tank Car -50ft. In-Transit Heated
Tank Car -Chemcial Tank 40ft.
Tank Car -Single Dome 5276
Tank Car -40ft.
Tank Car -40ft Three-Dome
Tank Car -40ft Six-Dome
Tank Car -62ft. Single-Dome
Tank Car -Old Time 6255
Tank Car -Old Time
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Catalogs

All Door Box Car
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
No. 5270-E -1972 Release
No. 5270-05

All Door Box Car
Ford
No information available regarding this car, but I'm guessing it was part of a promotional train set as it makes no appearances in any AHM listings/catalogs that I've found to date.

AHM All Door Box Car Ralston Purina

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

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All Door Box Car
Southern
No. 5270-B -1972 Release
No. 12031

All Door Box Car
Southern Pacific 
No. 5270-C -1972 Release

All Door Box Car

All Door Box Car
Union Pacific
No. 5270-D -1972 Release
No. 12033

The first appearance of the All Door Box Car in the AHM line is late 1972.  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.
 
Below 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.  Kader operated a plant in Taiwan during the time this car was offered by AHM, I would speculate that due to its similarity with the Bachmann model, also a Kader product, that Kader made this car for AHM in Taiwan.

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