old boxcar inner side query

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ScaleCraft
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old boxcar inner side query

Postby ScaleCraft » Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:00 pm

Going through this junk, I found two sides. Plain. No grooves, paint....and they feel like really stuff cardstock or possibly Masonite.
One has the doorway punched out (pre-cut), the other is intact...the pushed out plug is in the box.

Comet?
Or was this the inner liner to A-N or Athearn steel sides?

I can't remember.
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Re: old boxcar inner side query

Postby rex desilets » Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:26 pm

I dimly (!) recall that Reynolds boxcar kits had inner cardboard sides. I may even have in my infinite stash of unbuilt kits.
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Re: old boxcar inner side query

Postby CMorrill » Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:45 pm

Athearn used what you describe in their box car kits to support the steel sides. I don't think All Nation did so.

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Re: old boxcar inner side query

Postby rex desilets » Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:32 pm

CMorrill wrote:Athearn used what you describe in their box car kits to support the steel sides. I don't think All Nation did so.

Charlie
You're correct. Reynolds took over Athearn.
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Re: old boxcar inner side query

Postby bob turner » Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:49 pm

Correct. My first O Scale car was the Athearn "feather" boxcar. Purchased in 1955 from Lloyds in Baltimore. Punched card stock. Pretty substantial. I replaced it with basswood. I also soldered everything on - roof ribs, ladders, door slides. Today it is heavily weathered with actual corrosion. Still rolling.
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Re: old boxcar inner side query

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:37 am

rex desilets wrote:Reynolds took over Athearn.


....to LWS to Boxcar Jim to parts unknown.....
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