History

The 14300-14549 series boxcars were built by Greenville Steel Car Co. in 1950. They  were delivered with 8' Camel-Youngstown doors; all cars had Murphy diagonal panel roofs,  Standard Ry. Equip. Co. Improved Dreadnaught ends and riveted sides.  They rode on 50-ton ASF friction bearing trucks with 33" wheels.

150 of these cars were re-equipped as insulated boxcars with Superior 8' plug doors in 1959 and re-numbered 19300-19449. They were assigned to Campbell Soup in Napoleon, Ohio. The remaining 100 cars were gone from the roster by July 1972.

Information courtesy of Jim Hediger, Bernd Schroeder.

If you have additional information, corrections, photos, or diagrams you would like to have added to this page, please e-mail me.

Revenue Service Info

Clicking on the underlined numbers brings up a list of which individual cars
were assigned to that service at that time.

ORER Data Courtesy James Brewer, Terry Harrison, Scott Heiden, Mark Plank, Bernd Schroeder, Michael Schwiebert

Prototype Photographs
 
 

Modeling the Car

Branchline Trains has released an HO scale model of the 14300-series box car. It's available
as a single car (#1504;  $14.98) or in a four-pack (#15044; $59.59)