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40ft. Box Car
Alton & Southern
No. 5241-H
40ft. Box Car
Baltimore & Ohio Time Saver
No. 5241-L
40ft. Box Car
Bangor & Aroostock
No. 5241-D
40ft. Box Car
Boston & Maine
No.5241-G
No.5233
The red boxed Boston & Maine example was AHM stock number 5241-G; the blue
boxed model carried stock number 5233. Both appear to share the same tooling and same lettering.
40ft. Box Car
Burlington Northern
No. 5241-I
40ft. Box Car
Chattahooche Valley
No. 5241-K
40ft. Box Car
Chesapeake & Ohio
No. 5241-M
This interesting AHM paint scheme appears based on the C&O's mid-'50s experimental
"Cameo" paint jobs.
40ft. Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande
No. 5241-B
40ft. Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande
No. 5298-E
40ft. Box Car
Denver & Rio Grande -Cookie Box
No. 5241-15
40ft. Box Car
Evergreen
No. 5241-J
40ft. Box Car
Florida East Coast
No. 5241-E
40ft. Box Car
Great Northern
No. 5232
This orange and green Great Northern car pre-dates the Big Sky Blue with white
lettering example, both in the prototypical world and in AHM's universe. Cars carrying individual stock numbers with
no dash-suffix numbering are generally the original release offerings from AHM.
40ft. Box Car
Great Northern
No. 5241-C
40ft. Box Car
Green Bay & Western
No. 5241-F
40ft. Box Car
Western Maryland
AHM's 5241 stock number series of 40ft. sliding door box cars was a product of Taiwan. The tooling
very closely resembles that found in the 1970s Lionel-HO line and the Bachmann example avilable since the early '70s. Kader
operated a plant in Taiwan during the time this car appeared in the AHM catalog. I would speculate that this car, like others
in the line, was produced by Kader for AHM. Kader is the parent company of Bachmann.
The trucks are held to the underframe of the car with a plug. The coupler housing is a large
box design, again similar to some Lionel-HO and Bachmann examples of the 1970s. The origin mark is located on the center
beam of the underframe and reads AHM and TAIWAN. The car featured separate doors, roofwalk, and brakewheel.
AHM catalog a dozen roadnames in the 5241 series set. The retail price was $2.49 for this car.
The same or very similar tooling is also found in the AHM line for its 12000 series 40ft. sliding door box cars sold beginning
in the early 1980s. I have also found examples sharing what appears to be this same tooling in a prior release for what seems
to be the early 1970s.
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