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Here's a photo of another PC AAR 50' double-door, Sarnia ON, May 1976.http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/non-nyc/images/pc-175689.jpg
Looks like that one also has a lowered handbrake
"Half height ladders mean lowered brake wheels too."Only if the ladders are shortened on the B end. But I agree, PC 175689 does appear to have the lowered brakewheel.Many cars had the A end ladders shortened, while the B end were left tall, and the brake wheel stayed at the top of the end. Most of the BN, and predecessor road, cars kept their high brakewheels when the roofwalks were removed, with only the A end ladders shortened.The Yreka Western didn't shorten ANY of the ladders when they removed the roofwalk (or had it removed, I don't know who did the work):http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3047711MT made a model of this car, and removing the roofwalk was simple. Notice that the blue on the roof doesn't match the sides, and the area under the roofwalk wasn't painted, so any touch-up work was easy.
CJM413: Thank you! I was wondering where they came from, and that also means they're too new for my railroad. Darn! The picture I linked to was supposedly taken in early February, 1977, and the car already rust and scrape damage, as well as a bent ladder, so they must have gotten them very early in '77. Or the photo date is wrong... Oddly, it doesn't have any consolidated stencil, which should have been applied when it was repainted.That they were "kitbashed" cars makes it even more interesting.
I am guessing that most Great Northern boxcars were repainted by 1977; I have a photograph of a GN boxcar in Chetywnd circa 1974 - a 50' double door car with slanted logo.
Here are two photos of GN 50' boxcars with plug and sliding doors taken in 1979 and 1980:http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/gn/gn36439akg.jpghttp://www.rr-fallenflags.org/gn/gn36452akg.jpgMicro-Trains 33120 (from 1994) is a GN 50' boxcar with plug and sliding doors:You'd need to remove the roofwalk and shorten the ladder on one end, but the brakewheel is still in the higher position:
ExactRail also made that Gunderson 5200 in SP&S, many of which remained in SP&S paint into the 1980s. Since the BN cars were from the same order, the SP&S could show up anywhere the BN did.The Fox Valley "GN" cars aren't exact, being a SOO prototype, but they're close enough, and some of them lasted into the 90s in GN paint. Quite a few 50 ft GN cars lasted into the 80s, although the standard 40 footers were uncommon after the 70s, and by the late 70s, were mostly in grain service.