All About Aurora Postage Stamp Trains
4880: Boxcars
Prototype Information
The single-most common
freight car ever made was the 40-foot steel boxcar, and of these the most ubiquitous was probably the Pullman Standard PS-1, introduced in 1947.
Many thousands of them were built for hundreds of railroads. Roco's model
represents a car with Pullman Standard doors—one of several door types—although it has excessively-deep relief. Anyway, it's a good bet that
most if not all of the roads listed below had these cars in their fleet.
Model Information
Catalog Numbers/Road Names
- 4880/220 Santa Fe (appeared only in train sets)
- 4880/260 New Haven
- 4880/300 Great Northern
- 4880/310 Boston & Maine
- 4880/440 National Cylinder Gas
Product Photos
Packaging
Cardboard Box Labels
Plastic Box Inserts
Note the spelling on the second plastic box insert ("Greet" instead of "Great"). Also note the use of hyphens instead of slashes between catalog number and road code on two of the inserts.
