B-100-42 Box Cars

B-100-42 Box Cars:


	SSW 62625-62724		

		Golden West numbers:	VCY 142000-142048
					VCY 142050-142053
					VCY 142500-1425xx

These 60'-10" hi-cube box cars were built by FMC (Lot 17843) in 9/1977. They featured Freight Saver cushioned underframes, a 16'-0" door opening and 7468 ft3 capacity.

Many of these cars were rebuilt and re-lettered as Golden West Service cars.

Note also that some B-70-42 cars were upgraded to 100-ton capacity when lettered for Golden West Service. They were assigned to Golden West class B-100-42, which conflicted with this group of SP class B-100-42 cars.

Photo by: Steve Vincent

SSW:

SSW 62636	Steve Vincent	Oceanside, CA; 11/08/1977
SSW 62641	Rob Sarberenyi	Newark, CA 05/2003
SSW 62643	Eric Dillinger	Fresno, CA 03/15/2004
SSW 62644	Lee A. Gautreaux
SSW 62649	Rob Sarberenyi	Model Photo - New Athearn Genesis
SSW 62661	Rob Sarberenyi	Fremont, CA; 10/1996
SSW 62671	Rob Sarberenyi	Newark, CA; 11/2002
SSW 62688	Lee A. Gautreaux

This class was the basis for the new Athearn Genesis Line 60' FMC-Gunderson smooth side hi-cube box car with double 8' Youngstown sliding doors. Rob Sarberenyi presented a very good review of the model on the Yahoo Groups Espee discussion group and it is presented as follows:

      
	Picked up today Athearn's latest HO scale Genesis series 
	boxcar release:  the smooth side double-door 60' hi-cube 
    	boxcar painted for the Cotton Belt.  The model represents 
	SSW's 100 cars in the B-100-42 class, #62625-62724, built 
	by FMC in 1977.

	The model is nicely done and features many seperately applied 
	details and other items including:

		- corner ladders
		- underframe brake details and rods
		- stirrup steps
		- coupler cut levers
		- open slot walkway above coupler pockets (an etched part!)
		- rotating roller bearing caps
		- semi-finescale (tread) metal wheelsets

	Lettering and stenciling are applied well and appear pretty 
	accurate.  My one gripe is that unlike the two decorated 
	Western Pacific 60' exterior post waffle-side cars (built by 
	Berwick) I bought a few weeks ago, these have a mold bugger 
	(blemish) in the middle of the Stanray X-panel roof.  Cleaned up
	easily enough with an X-Acto knife, but will need a little 
	retouching.  It'll disappear once proper weathering is applied.

	Meanwhile, I'll allow the list's true freight car experts (Guy 
	Wilber, Bill Kelly, Lee Gautreaux, Tony Thompson et al) comment 
	about total accuracy to the prototype.  To my not-so-well-trained
	-freight-car eye (hey, I'm a diesel guy!), it looks very much like 
	SSW cars of this class I've photographed over the years.  Now if 
	only I could find where I put those slides...

	The SSW cars are available from your dealers now, along with the 
	same model in Golden West colors.