History

Equipment diagram courtesy Greg McDonnell

The 17000-17074 series 50' boxcars were built by Pullman Standard and delivered in December 1973. They were all assigned to the General Mills cereal plant in Toledo Ohio and had flat raised-panel roofs and double 8-foot wide plug doors

The remaining 74 cars were sold in late 1984 to Oklahoma's Kiamichi Railroad, where they continue in revenue service today as KRR 5000-5073 (several are marked 'Tin Plate Loading Only'). They still wear their original DT&I blue paint jobs with painted-over DT&I logos

Information courtesy of Jim Eager, David Hoge.

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

ORER Data Courtesy Scott Heiden, Mark Plank, Michael Schwiebert

Prototype Photographs

Modeling the Car

In HO scale Walthers 50' Waffle Box (out of production) can be used to kitbash a model of these cars. Be prepared to do a lot of surgery: You have to remove the waffles between the ribs on both sides, convert the roof from peaked to flat, and widen the door opening to place a pair of scratchbuilt plug doors in the larger opening. Brian Everett has almost finished doing this to a Walthers model:

We'll have a step-by-step article on how it was built when he's finished.