Elvas Tower: circa 1947 Boxcar Set -- B - Elvas Tower

This is part 2 of 2 which together form a 25 car set of circa 1947 boxcars. The set is designed as a companion to the BLWZT Pennsylvania Railroad 1950 freight set available at valleypass.com/sales. Together, these sets can make a good representation of what moved on the rails at that time, especially in the northeast.

What's most prominently missing in this set are X29 boxcars (available here at Elvas Tower and also in the BLWZT set), NYC USRA steel boxcars (Paul Charland has a free set, and there is one in the BLWZT set based off of Tim Muir's model) and the PRR X31 round roof boxcar (found in the BLWZT set). A representation of the period would be incomplete without these cars.

This half of the set includes beautiful models by George Mathews and Larry Goss which represent prototypes built between 1929 and 1947. Many of the Larry Goss models used have been resized by me to represent smaller 1929, 1932 and 1937 prototypes.

My intention is the same as the BLWZT set: to provide a single download for activity builders.

All of these cars are variations of boxcar red -- and yet, as appropriate to the prototype, they are varied.