Elvas Tower: SP_B-50-12A_27118 - Elvas Tower

SOUTHERN PACIFIC B-50-12-A
USRA Single Sheathed Steel Side Rebuild
File Name: SP_B-50-12A_27118
27317 was in the Flint, Michigan pool as an XME DF loader car, in auto parts service.
Mesh and Textures ©2007 by Tim Muir

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 the second half of 1949, class

B-50-12-A. This model represents those rebuilt cars.

The rebuilding program started by removing and discarding the roof and sides from the old

single-sheathed cars and cleaning the remaining parts by sandblasting. Afterwards the 5/5/5

corrigated Murphy ends were removed. Frames were inspected and repaired as needed and the

original Andrews trucks were refurbished and re-used. New steel sides from Youngstown Steel

Door Co. were installed and the Murphy ends were attached, now with a 5/4/5/3 corrigation

configuration and wide sheet steel transitions to cover the new height and width from the

old. New roof panels from Standard Railway Equipment were assembled into a roof and

applied. These were of the diagonal-panel design. New Apex Tri-Lok running boards and new

Youngstown steel doors were installed. All the B-50-12-A's kept their original road numbers

until the 1956 re-numbering. About 675 cars were thus rebuilt and any remaining cars of the

original class were either scrapped or placed in non-interchange company service.

About 64 cars were placed in auto parts service as XME DF loaders and XAP Oldsmobile engine

cars.

241 cars survived into 1960 and beyond. Some in veneer service had their doors removed and

the openings widened.

Unzip to a temporary folder. Move contents to ...\Trains\Trainset folder. Build a Consist

in a Consist Editor.

LEGAL:
As author of this new design, I advise that it is copyrighted, but royalty free. You may

use it and edit it as you wish, but you may not distribute it for money, or include it in a

paid distribution without permission from Tim Muir, who can be reached via personal message

at Elvas Tower http://www.elvastower.com/forums/. You must include my name in your

credits, as well as my copyright notices, and this entire Readme.txt, if you repaint it,

use or derive files from it, or otherwise use or distribute these files.
Because this program is royalty free, it is provided WHERE IS, AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, and

WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE or any other

warranties. There is no liability by the authors in your use of this program, instead all

liability is assumed by the user.

Credits to Phil Moberg for supplying the scan of detailed plans drawn by Jeffrey M.

Koeller, ( Mainline Modeller, Oct, 1992, also found in the book listed below).

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
April 25, 2007
Railroad Earth

Repainted by Anthony D. Cook
April 7, 2010

Thanks Tim For all Your fine MSTS Models. You make MSTS fun Our friend.

Original File Name = SP_B-50-12A_27118.rar