MODEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR
Built from a Westerfield kit, this model of a Santa Fe Bx-3 boxcar was finished to represent a moderately weathered car (above). Note the black route card board to the left of the door. The chalk
marks were created using a white Staedtler pencil. On the com- pleted B-end of the car (below), note the black roof in both this photo and the side view of the completed model.
Essential Freight Cars: 46 AT&SF Bx-3 and Bx-6 boxcars
Post-World War I cars on the Santa Fe/Ted Culotta B
eginning in 1923, the Santa Fe began to take deliveries of box- cars and automobile cars (furni- ture cars in Santa Fe parlance) that would be a signature design for the road, if that was possible in such a large fleet. The cars employed a unique side design that featured U-shaped vertical channels with the “U” section facing outward. The side sheathing was se- cured between these exposed channels. The effect was like a typical double- sheathed wood car, but with breaks where the structural members were vis- ible. These “sectional sheathed” cars were as much a trademark of the road as the rib side cars were to the Milwau- kee, the wagontop to the B&O, and the round roof to the Pennsy.
The boxcar versions were placed into
two classes: Bx-3 and Bx-6. They fol- lowed the typical inside length stan- dard of the day, 40′-6″. They used two- section Murphy corrugated steel ends, with seven corrugations in the top pan- el and eight in the bottom. The Murphy XLA flexible roof was used and the un- derframe followed the prevailing ARA practice of twin channel sections se-
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