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These steel-underframe composite automobile cars had been built by AC&F in 1925 so were only eight years old when rebuilt. The rebuilding con- sisted primarily of converting the stag- gered double eleven-foot wide doors to single six-foot wide livestock doors, re- sheathing the sides and installing new floor decking. The stock cars retained the boxcars’ original Murphy corrugat- ed ends, Murphy radial roofs and heavy steel, riveted fishbelly under- frames. Four hundred of the rebuilt cars be- came single-deck stock cars of series 15000-15399 while two hundred be- came double-deck cars of series 16400- 16599. The single-deck cars had a 40′- 6″ inside length, 10′-0″ inside height and a capacity of 3,459 cubic feet. The double-deck cars had a 5′-6″ bottom- deck height, 4′-1″ upper-deck height and a capacity of 3,355 cubic feet. Wabash began installing AB brakes on their freight cars in 1940. By 1942, 30 of the single-deck cars had AB brakes and by 1944, 316 cars had AB brakes. By 1944 84 of the double-deck cars had AB brakes. Wabash stock cars in revenue service were always painted freight car red overall with white lettering. The road name WABASH was stenciled in one of two sizes. Two different sized letter boards were applied to accommodate the size of stenciling which depended on the car number and era.
Excellent color photographs of
Wabash 15182 and 15283 were pub- lished in the book Wabash/Nickel Plate/DT&I Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Morning Sun Books. One photo shows a red col- or similar to Polly Scale Zinc Chromate Primer. The other photo shows a brown color similar to Model Master Signal Brown.
The numbers of single-deck cars (15000 series) in revenue service were: 1937 (400), 1951 (395), 1960 (386), 1965 (261), 1972 (0). The numbers of double- deck cars (16400 series) in revenue serv- ice were: 1937 (200), 1951 (199), 1960 (194), 1965 (77), 1972 (0). The ownership of the cars changed in October, 1964, when the Wabash Rail- road came under control of the Norfolk & Western. It is not known if any were repainted by the Norfolk & Western. The first resin kit by Yarmouth Model
Works represents the 40-foot, single- deck Wabash stock car. It includes flat resin castings for the sides, ends, roof, underframe, doors and details. The pat- terns for the resin castings were built by talented modeler Aaron Gjermundson. The resin material is light gray in color and similar to the resin in kits by Sunshine and Westerfield. Kit parts in- clude: lengths of straight brass wire of .008″, .010″, .012″ and .015″ diameters, formed drop grab-irons of .012″ diame- ter wire,
laser-cut wood running boards and lateral boards, etched met-
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