B&O box car designers in the late 1960s were looking for a better way to transport canstock. Canstock is thin steel or aluminum used for can making. After several test designs, the B&O approached Pullman Standard to build a box car using the data the B&O had collected. In 1972, the result was a 50' box car with a severely offset 12' 6" door opening. The doors on the car were not identical as one door opened to the right and the other to the left and each door has unique latching hardware. Additionally, a fiberglass roof panel was used on the 4th panel from the B end of the car to allow light in the car as the doors were located at the opposite end. The design of the car allowed the B&O to load, transport and unload more rolls per car than normal box car designs.

Midway through the Chessie era, many of the cars were shopped, painted and the fiberglass panel was replaced with a steel panel.

Early in the CSX era, all cars had new style of doors installed and any remaining fiberglass panels were replaced with a steel panel.

Only 75 Pullman Standard canstock cars were ever built.  However, the canstock cars have been photographed all across the United States.  There are many photos of the cars on the internet showing them in California, Denver, Texas, Chicago, Ohio, and all up and down the east coast.

This release includes three schemes with six road numbers for each along with an undecorated and unassembled kit. These are available now and are first come, first filled items.

Features:

• Ready To Run
• Crisp detail
• Sharp painting and details
• Wire grabs
• Metal wheels
• Seperately applied door tracks
• Kadee couplers
• B&O / Chessie doors or CSX doors
• Apex Slotted crossover end platform on the B&O car
• Morton hole crossover platform on the Chessie and CSX cars
• off-white fiberglass roof panel or blue steel roof panel
• undecorated kits have all 4 different doors, 2 different roof panels, 2 different crossover platforms