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Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Spiral Bound. New. This new Volume on Santa Fe's modern box cars starts where John Dobyne's Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 4 Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 left off. Beginning with the 500 cars Bx-66 Class cars of 1954 - one of the last classes of box cars to come lettered from the builders with name train slogans on the car sides - it completes the story of box car development up to the BNSF merger of 1995. This was the colorful Shock Control and Super Shock Control era. Topeka shops installed a 10-inch travel 'Shock Control' sliding center sill under frame in a Bx-66 Class box car in June 1958. Numbered, 10001 and re-classed as a Bx-77 with a new Indian red and black paint scheme with a large Santa Fe herald and new advertising slogan 'DF with Shock Control' splashed across the car side, this car ushered in a new era in box car construction. From then on, nearly all new classes of Santa Fe box cars were fitted with either a Shock Control, or a…
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Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume 8 - Santa Fe Railway Box Cars: The Shock Control Era 1954-1995 Unknown - 1914
by Charles Slater
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- Title Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume 8 - Santa Fe Railway Box Cars: The Shock Control Era 1954-1995
- Author Charles Slater
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- Publisher Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 2014
- Date 1914
- ISBN 9781933587318
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Santa Fe Box Cars: The Shock Control Era 1954-1995
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