Box Cars
RC&G
200 series
There
are two different classes of box cars on the line, wood and
steel. Their are two different styles of wooden box cars but
these are grouped together in the 200 to 249 number series. The
first type are the Bachmann cars based on an ET&WCN
prototype. These suffer from the same issues as all the cars
from Bachmann's early Big Haulers series in that the trucks are
inset too far and have Talgo style coupler mounting. All of
these get new Aristo Delton sprung trucks and body mounted
Kaydee #1 gauge couplers. Many hobbyists think these cars are
made wrong because the doors on the car both open towards the
same end of the car unlike most that open to the right when view
from the side. The cars however are correct for the prototype
they were model after. The other style of wooden box car in
service are the Aristo Delton classics cars which are roughly
patterned after a D&RGW car. These come with the correct
trucks correctly mounted and I only need to replace the wheels
with one of a smaller diameter and add the Kaydee couplers. The
photo below shows one of the Bachmann cars after being modified.