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Catalogs

Pulpwood Rack Car
Burlington Northern
No. 5392-B

Pulpwood Rack Car
Frisco
No. 5392-C

Pulpwood Rack Car
M-K-T -The Katy
No. 5392-D

Pulpwood Rack Car
Rio Grande
No. 5392-F
 
There appear to be at least two variations to AHM's Rio Grande Pulpwood Car offerings over the years.  To date, I've found examples featuring a black car with white lettering; plus examples dressed in a Rio Grande orange color with black lettering.  Both are pictured above.

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Pulpwood Rack Car
Southern Railway
No. 5392-G

AHM Union Pacific Pulpwood Car

Pulpwood Rack Car
Union Pacific
No. 5392-E

AHM's collection of freight cars was certainly an interesting bunch. This Pulpwood Rack Car is among the more curious and obscure offerings. There is a prototype for the car and it is found pictured above. The 1966 edition of the Car & Locomotive Cyclopedia holds the answer on its page 276. The car is reportedly a Norfolk & Western Princeton, West Viriginia shops creation. The idea was to have a car that could handle more logs than a typical gondola. It appears the side gates are hinged and drop down to ease unloading. For those Rivet-Counters eager to add it to their pike, beware, it appears N&W build only a half dozen examples in the early '60s. No information is available to confirm that any of the six N&W cars were owned by any other roads, nor have I confirmed that they survived to the Norfolk Southern days.

Though it is a rare prototype example, not only did AHM catalog the Pulpwood Rack Car, Atlas had this car among its N-scale offerings in the 1970s.

The AHM examples I have examined feature the Roco diamond logo and Austria origin marks on the underframe of the car.