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FROM BLW/ZT ... BLW/ZT 1950 Freight Cars Set !

The purpose of this set was to provide a single, multi-railroad set circa April 1950 for the PRR Eastern Region.
The idea was to provide freight cars specifically for the location and the era.
I received a lot of coaching and assistance from several people for which I am forever grateful.

My focus was new and updated freight cars.
I hope you are not offended by the reuse of existing models, but this was meant to be an activity builder focused set.

As with the Buffalo set, this will be offered with and without locomotives.

Railroads represented in this set include:

ONE HUNDRED freight cars were developed for this set. Almost all freight cars are either new models,
or upgraded versions of existing models.

40' Steel boxcars, representing several heights, door, roof and end styles and configurations
AT&SF
C&EI
CM&O
CNJ
ERIE
MEC
NC&StL
NYNH&H
NYC
Reading
Wabash
PRR X29 (several styles)
PRR X31
PRR X31 double door
PRR X37

40' "War Emergency" single-sheath outside braced box cars
Birmingham Southern
Canadian Pacific
Central Vermont
Nickel Plate
Northern Pacific

50'+ Automobile and Express box cars
Canadian National
Pere Marquette
PRR X40
PRR X41

1920's Vintage single-sheath outside braced box cars
Colorado Southern
Lousianna & Alabama
Milwaukee Road

52' Flat Cars
Milwaukee Road
PRR F30

Gondolas
PRR GRa
PRR GS
PRR G26
PRR G27
MILW Wood Side
NKP Wood Side
NC&StL 42' Steel
NYC 42' Steel
Southern 42' Steel

GLa Open Twin Hoppers
Berwind
Cambria & Indiana
CNJ
PRR
Virgnian

PRR H31B Twin Hoppers

PRR H21a Quad Hoppers

USRA Offset Side Twin Hoppers
Cambria & Indiana
Erie
Wheeling & Lake Erie

USRA Offset Side Triple Hoppers
Canadian National

USRA Offset Side Quad Hoppers
Milwaukee Road

USRA Twin Hoppers
DL&W
DT&I
LV
NYC
NYNH&H
RDG

40' Steel Refrigerator Cars
American Refrigerator Transit (MP/WAB)
Burlington Refrigerator Express
Fruit Growers Express
GARX (Rock Island)
MDT (Lackawanna)
NRC (Illinois Central)
Rath Packing Co.
URTX (M&StL)
URTX (Milwaukee)

UTLX X-3 Tank Cars
UTLX 6500 Gal
UTLX 8000 Gal (Short)
UTLX 8000 Gal (Long)
UTLX 10000 Gal
Gulf Oil 10000 Gal
Tidewater Oil 10000 Gal

Cabooses / Cabin Cars
Baltimore & Ohio
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading Railroad

THANKS TO:

This set has been 'under construction' for well over a year.
Many people have assisted in its creation, if I have forgotten your input,
I apologize. At my age, I can't tell you what I ate yesterday...

Rod McLauchlan (Railsim Images) for his artistic promo shots
Pete Mulvey - for the original idea of creating an activity-based set
Chris Parker - for weeks, if not months, of painstaking research on what the PRR would
have looked like in April of 1950... Also for the multitude of skins for many of these freightcars, probably more skins than I did!
Tim Muir - for his gracious permission to use and modify his X29 box car models for many of the older box cars in the set.
Dave Nelson for detailed drawings, photographs and knowledge of vintage freight cars.
The crew over at Elvas Tower who helped me on multiple ocassions when I was 'stuck'
Our beta testers, Chris Parker, Rick Berg, Pete Mulvey, Gaetan Belanger and David Carleton
and to my 7 year partnership with Gaetan Belanger, without whom, none of this would have been possible!

Thanks

Rick Franzosa
BLW/ZosaTrains (C) 2013
BLW (Bélanger Locomotive Works) (C) 2013