Moloco HO: FGE Plate B Insulated Boxcar - B&O

Description

Moloco HO Scale: FGE Plate B Insulated Boxcar - Baltimore & Ohio ' Repaint'
Plate B • 10-2 Centered Plug Door •
Repaint AX 9-64
In 1963 Fruit Growers Express at their Alexandria, VA plant started to build a standard car design for the RBL market. Specifically a centered 10-foot wide door opening was central to the insulated boxcar design (specific door opening ranged from 10-1 to 10-2). This popular configuration spread across the most reporting marks of all the FGE catalogued items. FGE purchased their underframes already pre-assembled by fabricators Berwick in PA they were shipped to the Alexandria plant to be rivet assembled. The entire boxcar was riveted together from the bottom up, in the 7+7 R pattern. These were insulated (foamed-in-place), had proven 20-inch cushioned underframe, Keystone,  Hydra-Cushion and Freight-Saver. Many types and configurations and combinations of loaders were
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sed as per customer specifications.
Design features faithfully rendered in the assembled car
Overhanging Stanray roof with the first CORRECT Morton Roofwalk and crossover platforms
Perfect to prototype Stanray T3-4 welded ends, with separate roofwalk end bracket
NEW car sides FGE signature rivetted, with FGE style ladders, with specific prototype door stops, door gussets and sill design
Accurate Moloco's cushioned draft gear coupler boxes
Specific cushioning devices and associated underframe layout and details dependent on roadname
NEW MOLOCO Ride-Control 70t Roller Bearing trucks
Rubber airhoses the first in the industry by Moloco