{"product_id":"b7-gn-35000-series-double-sliding-door-steel-boxcars-copy","title":"B7 GN 36000 SERIES PLUG AND SLIDING DOOR STEEL BOXCARS","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThese Moloco GN 36000 series models are 50’ 6” steel box cars with one 8’ plug door and one 6’ sliding door, and 4997 cubic foot capacity, GST code B7 built by St. Cloud in 1961 and numbered 36250 to 36749. The body is an accurate match for GN series 36250 to 36749. This car is a rivet counter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOur models are painted in Glacier Green with slanted road name in Vermilion Red, the as delivered paint scheme. We also have some models in the 1966 Glacier Green repaint with ‘Empire Builder’ style road name to the right of the doorway, and some in Big Sky Blue repaint as applied in 1969. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe notation GST XX is the alpha numeric car kind code assigned to freight cars by the General Superintendent of Transportation in the late 1960’s and used on computer generated train consists to identify the type of car. The first letter was the general car type, such as B for box cars. For box cars, the number indicated both length of the car and doors. Even numbers indicated a nominal 40-foot car, while odd numbers a nominal 50-foor car. Numbers 1 and 2 indicated a single 6 or 7 foot wide door. Numbers 3 and 4 indicated a single 8 or 9 foot wide door. Numbers 5 and 6 indicated a single plug door. Numbers 7 and 8 indicated two doors, which could be either plug or sliding in any combination. The 35000 and 36000 series cars are GST code B7. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eFifty-foot box cars existed in small numbers since about the turn of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century. They were originally intended to transport light density products. Some early GN 50-foot box cars were stenciled ‘Furniture’, for example. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe January 1942 Equipment Register shows that GN owned 3,057 50-foot box cars. There were 685 automobile cars and 2,372 plain 50-foot cars. All were wood side, steel underframe construction of 100,000 pound carrying capacity except that 99 cars, 88 in Automobile service, were of 140,000 pound carrying capacity. Automobile service cars had minimum 10-foot-wide side doors and permanent auto stowage devices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eBy 1955, Great Northern’s 50-foot box car fleet was getting old. The largest groups were built in 1925 and the newest in 1928, Over half of the fleet was 30 years old in 1955. In addition, customers demanded wider doors so that they could use forklifts to load and unload all manner of products; especially lumber and plywood. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eDuring 1957 and 1958 Great Northern’s St. Cloud shops built 1,000 50’ 6” inside length, 50-ton capacity cars, all with 15-foot clear opening double sliding side doors in the series GN 35000 to 35999.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe 50-foot box car program resumed in 1960 with one lot of 250 cars purchased from American Car and Foundry, 36000 to 36249. These cars had 50’ 6” inside length, 14-foot clear opening plug and sliding doors and 4928 cubic foot capacity. The ACF plug door was 8 feet wide and the sliding door was 6 feet wide. By 1968, twenty-four cars from this lot were equipped with used 70-ton trucks and renumbered 36750 to 36773. These cars are models of cars built by St. Cloud in 1961, numbered 36250 to 36749. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eInterchange list data to the CB\u0026amp;Q, presumably in the 1965 to 1970 time frame, shows that commodities in double door box cars included: Aluminum Ingots, Copper, Copper Bars, Ingots, Zinc ingots, Lumber, Plywood, and Shakes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moloco","offers":[{"title":"36274 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220001977,"sku":"G3728A","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36386 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220034745,"sku":"G3728B","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36422 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220067513,"sku":"G3728C","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36539 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220100281,"sku":"G3728D","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36679 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220133049,"sku":"G3728E","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36715 GLACIER GREEN - SLANTED ROAD NAME 1961","offer_id":47905220165817,"sku":"G3728F","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36504 GLACIER GREEN - EMPIRE BUILDER 1966","offer_id":47905220198585,"sku":"G3728G","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36536 GLACIER GREEN - EMPIRE BUILDER 1966","offer_id":47905406877881,"sku":"G3728H","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36696 GLACIER GREEN - EMPIRE BUILDER 1966","offer_id":47905406910649,"sku":"G3728I","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36551 BIG SKY BLUE 3-1969","offer_id":47905406943417,"sku":"G3728J","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36523 BIG SKY BLUE 10-1969 HILLYARD","offer_id":47905406976185,"sku":"G3728K","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36690 BIG SKY BLUE 2-69 HILLYARD","offer_id":47905407008953,"sku":"G3728L","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0118\/6227\/8240\/files\/36000GG-SLANT.jpg?v=1783098494","url":"https:\/\/store.gnrhs.org\/products\/b7-gn-35000-series-double-sliding-door-steel-boxcars-copy","provider":"GNRHS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}