86191 Western Pacific single car. WP had a large Ford plant on line at Milpitas, California and forwarded parts from Midwestern parts plants to this facility. Since this group of cars was part of a large multi-plant pool, a number of WP cars could be seen moving parts between the South and Midwest as well.
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86252 Central of Georgia double door 2-pack. This batch of CoG cars was delivered in the summer of ‘66 and were initially assigned for loading at a Ford ’s Walton Hills plant in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.
86241 Norfolk & Western double door single car, 86242 2-pack. This large batch was delivered in the Spring of ‘65 in this paint scheme. They were initially assigned for loading on the Chicago Heights Terminal & Transfer (now part of UP.)
87061 Conrail (large logo) Quad Door single car.
87101 Pennsylvania quad door single car, 87102 2-pack. Pennsylvania received this group of quad-door cars in 1965 whereupon they were assigned to carrying Chevy body panels. GM, as a rule, preferred quad-door cars over their double door cohorts. Unlike most PRR double door cars, this batch of quad door cars had black ends (probably “car-cement” rather than black paint) and we are replicating this detail on our run.
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86291Illinois Central Gulf double door single car. The 7,100 mile Illinois Central Gulf was well positioned to handle auto parts traffic between the upper midwest and central southern states and contributed these Greenville built cars to the various 86' boxcar pools accordingly.