40-foot Wood Sheathed Box Car
Arctic Oil
No. 5239-B
40-foot Wood Sheathed Box Car
Baltimore & Ohio
No. 5239-B
40-foot Wood Sheathed Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande
No. 5239-D
40-foot Wood Sheathed Box Car
Northern Pacific
No. 5239-E
This is a single-sheathed wood side box car, similar in design to
the 40-foot steel sliding door box car made by Rivarossi in Italy for AHM. The Artic Oil example in my collection includes,
"Made in Yugoslavia" on the box. The car's underframe has what appears to be the cursive-writing, "Rivarossi" logo, but that
logo and the section next to it are raised blank areas. The model weighes 1.55 ounces and measures 41-feet in length. The
door is 6.5-feet wide and looks similar to the Youngstown design and separately applied and working. The door rides in a
pair of metal track guides. The running board is a separately applied plastic piece and includes what appears to be steel
tread construction. The laterals at end of the running board are cast on the roof of the model. The roof appears to be a
Murphy pattern. The ends are a 3/4 dreadnaught design. The brake wheel and ladders are all separately applied.
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