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File Name: SP Class B-50-12, 50T,40ft Single-Sheathed Boxcars
File Submitter: timmuir
File Submitted: 08 Mar 2008
File Category: Box Cars Std Gauge

Southern Pacific Class B-50-12.
3 USRA 50-TON,40-FOOT SINGLE-SHEATHED BOXCARS
Mesh and Textures ©2008 by Tim Muir

These three B-50-12's are virtually new models from the SP USRA single-sheathed box car I had uploaded previously. They don't use freight animation add-on parts files, and the three individual cars share the minor ace files, having their own main ace files. This helps your computer processing speeds with trains of these cars.

The United States Railway Administration took over the railroads in December 1917 in an
attempt to ease the freight car shortage during the Great War. As part of the program it designed standard cars,
had them built and assigned them to the various railroads. 25,000 single
sheathed cars were built between 1918 and 1920 and assigned to 26 roads. Too late to aid in the war effort,
the design set a standard for the following decade.

Southern Pacific received 1,000 cars from AC&F, Haskel & Barker and Pullman in 1919, class B-50-12, series 26360-27359. The cars were steel sheathed in late 1949, class B-50-12a. This model covers cars up to this point. There were only 2 un-altered cars on the roster by 1950, and gone by 1953.


Credits to Phil Moberg for supplying the scan of detailed plans.

Background info and reference photos from Anthony Thompson's book, Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol.4, Box Cars, from Signature Press.

Anthony D. Cook for testing the model.

Dave Nelson, some wag file work.

Thank You

Tim Muir
Railroad Earth

Original File Name = SP_B_50_12_Boxcars.zip

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