Description
Railroad Short Name: B&M
Built by the Southern Iron & Equipment Co. (SIECO) of Atlanta, Ga., starting in the early 1970s. At the time, incentive per diem rates (car rentals) were instituted to encourage ordinary boxcar construction.
This model represents one of the early SIECO cars built to Plate B clearance dimensions for unrestricted use nationwide. These cars can be identified by several characteristics:
- Straight, inward-facing channel side sills running from bolster to bolster reinforced with a steel channel beneath each doorway.
- Eight-panel sides on each side of the doorways.
- Inset Dreadnaught ends with the corner flanges turned outward where they’re riveted to the sides.
- Stanray X-panel roof.
Features:
- Separately applied grab irons, end ladders and brake wheel
- Photoetched cross-over platform
- 33” machined metal wheels with RP25 contours
- Weighted for optimum performance
- Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
- Painted and printed for realistic decoration
- Weighted for optimum performance
- Minimum radius: 18”
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