Moloco - HO Scale - Fruit Growers Express Boxcar 50 ft RBL Plate B - Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) # 492450 NEW 5-65 7+7R 10-1 Center Door (SKU 504-33001-02)
Available On: July 1, 2019
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, Hydra-Cushion. Many types and configurations and combinations of loaders were used as per customer specifications, but these specifically had Moveable Bulkheads.
ACL assigned these cars to service return to Lakeland, FLA on the ACL.
Design features faithfully rendered in the assembled car