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Walthers Freight Car Timeline
1400 Series Stoughton 45/102 Trailer
1450 series Stoughton 53' Van Trailers
1600 series 32' Van Trailer
1650 series 40' Trailer
1900 Series Stoughton 48' Semi Trailer
2000 series 40' Double Sheathed Wood Box Car with Dreadnaught Ends
2050 series X-29 Box Car
2100 Series 40' Single Sheathed Box Car w/Dreadnaught Steel Ends
2120 series 40' Wood Box Car w/Grain Doors
2150 series 40' Single Sheathed Box Car with Double Sheathed Ends
2200 series 40' Double Sheathed Wood Box Car with Wood Ends
2250 series 40' Double Sheathed Wood Box Car with ARA Steel Ends
2300 series 40' Wood Reefer
2400 series 1910-25 40' Wood Reefer w/Wood Ends
2500 series 40' All-Steel Reefer
2550 series General American Meat Reefers
2570 series 40' Steel Meat Reefers
2600 series 42' Flat Car
2900 series 42' Bulkhead Flat Car
2650 series 40' Single Sheathed Box Car with Braced Ends
2700 series 40' Double Sheathed Box Car -Early w/Braced Ends
2750 series Stock Car with Steel Ends
2800 series Stock Car with Wood Ends
2950 series 36' 50-ton Offset Side Hopper
3000 series 36' 50-ton Ribbed Side Hopper
3050 series 36' Wood Chip Hopper
3100 series 40' ARA Steel Box Car w/Wood Roofwalk
3200 series 40' Plug Door Box Car
3250 series 65' Mill Gondola
3300 series 40' Plug Door Reefer
3350 series Stock Car with Slatted Open Ends
3450 series 50' North American RBL Smoothside Box Car
3500 series 40' AAR Steel Box Car
3600 series 50' North American Plug Door EP Box Car
3650 series 50' Airslide Covered Hopper
3700 series 40' PS-1 Box Car
3750 series GSC Commonwealth 53'-6" Flat Car
3800 series 40' Gondola
3851 series 50' Cushion Coil Cars
3899 series 55' Cushion Coil Cars w/Round Hoods
3930 series 5-Unit All-Purpose Spine Car
3950 series 75' Piggyback Flat Car
3980 series Front Runner
4000 series 45' Logging Flat Car w/Logs
4100 series 72' Centerbeam Flat Car
4200 series Ballast Hopper
4350 series Bay Window Caboose
4600 series 39' Single-Bay Airslide Covered Hopper
4653 series Dynamometer Car
4680 series 84' Paired Airslide Hoppers
4700 series Waffle Side Box Car
4750 series RBL Insulated 50' Box Car
4800 series 89' Enclosed Auto Carrier
4850 series 89-foot Tri-Level Enclosed Auto Carrier
4900 series 100-Ton Quad Hopper
4950 series 89' Channel-Side Flat Car
5000 series 10,000 Gallon Steam/Diesel Tank Car
5100 series 30' Funnel-Flow Tank Car
5150 series 40' Funnel-Flow Tank Car
5200 series 54' Funnel-Flow Tank Car
5250 series 65' Propane Tank Car
5257 series 65' Anhydrous Ammonia Tank Car
5300 series Bethgon Coalporter Gondola
5350 series Jordan Spreader
5400 series 37' Cement Covered Hopper
5450 series Cryogenic Refrigerated Box Car
5630 series 81' Depressed Center Four-Truck Flat Car
5650 series Scale Test Car
5700 series PS-2 Center Discharge Hopper
5849 series PD Covered Hopper
5850 series 50' Single-Sheathed Double-Door Box Car
5900 series Thrall 53-foot Gondola
6040 series Gunderson 60-foot Box Car
7000 series Thrall All-Door Box Car
7050 series 40' Ortner 100-Ton Open Aggregate Hopper
7100 series Gunderson 50' High-Cube Paper Service Box Car
7150 series 64' Plastic Pellet Hopper
7270 series 23,000 Gallon Tank Car
7450 series 46' USRA Steel Gondola
7660 Series Milwaukee Rib-Side Caboose
7880 series Depressed Center Flat Car
7930 series Fruit Growers Express 50' Mechanical Reefer
9146 series 40' Scrap Gondola
Tim McCoy Wild West Show
The Great Circus Train
53' Single-Unit Well Car
50' Pulpwood Car
Trinity RD4 Coal Hoppers
Greenville Wood Chip Hoppers
Difco Car
Five-Unit Articulated Well Flats
40' Reefer Six-Packs
55' Cushion Coil Car
86' Four-Door Hi-Cube Box Car
60' Double-Door Auto Parts Box Car
P-S 60' Single-Door Auto Parts Box Car
7600 Series SP C-30-1 Wood Caboose
100000 Series Trinity 14K Molten Sulfur Tank Car
910-4900 Series Well Car
5750 Series Russell Snow Plow
Site Notes

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Aberdeen & Rockfish
No.932-4717 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
B&O (box car red)
No.932-4701
No.932-94701 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Burlington Northern
No.932-4716 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Canadian Pacific
No.932-4718 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad
No.932-4710
No.932-94710 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Chessie System -C&O
No.932-4702
No.932-94702 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Chicago & North Western (box car red)
No.932-4703
No.932-94703 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car 3-Pack Kit
CSX
No.932-9102 -1993 Release
 
This set consisted of three Waffle Side Box Car Kits.  Two cars carried CSXT reporting marks, and the third car carried SBD reporting marks.  All three were blue with yellow CSX lettering.  The set retailed for $29.98.

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
DRGW
No.932-4709
No.932-94709 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Family Lines -L&N (box car red)
No.932-4707

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Green Bay & Western
No.932-4711
No.932-94711 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Illinois Terminal
No.932-4708
No.932-94708 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Louisville & Nashville
No.932-4713 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Maine Central
No.932-4705
No.932-94705 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Pickens
No.932-4715 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Rock Island (box car red)
No.932-4706

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Seaboard System
No.932-4704
No.932-94704 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Southern Railway
No.932-4712
No.932-94712 3-Pack -1994 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car 3-Pack Kit
U.S. Army
No.932-9128
 
The reporting marks on these cars were USAX and the roadnumbers were:  29384, 29386, 29388.

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Wisconsin Central
No.932-4714 -1998 Release

50' Waffle Side Box Car Kit
Undecorated
No.932-4700 -1998 Release

The 1993 Walthers catalog presents the Waffle Side Box Car as a new release.  Included in '93 are a dozen roadnames (B&O, Chessie, CNW, Seaboard System, MEC, Rock Island, Family Lines/L&N, IT, DRGW, Chattahoochee, GBW, and Southern), plus Undecorated.  Retail was $9.98 per kit in 1993.
 
Walthers lists this car as being introduced to the railroad industry in 1965.
 
The 1994 catalog includes a new listing for 50' Waffle Box 3-Packs in kit form selling for $19.98.  A dozen roadnames (B&O, Chessie, CNW, Seaboard System, MEC, Rock Island, Family Lines/L&N, Illinois Terminal, DRGW, Chattahoochee, GBW, and Southern) were offered in 3-packs in '94.

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