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40' Plug Door Box Car
Burlington Northern
No. 3215

40' Plug Door Box Car
Canadian National 
No. 3213

40' Plug Door Box Car
Canadian Pacific
No.3221

40' Plug Door Box Car
Chessie System -C&O 
No. 3218

40' Plug Door Box Car
Conrail
No.3205

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Data Only (Box Car Red)
No. 3229

40' Plug Door Box Car
Data Only (Tuscan Red)
No. 3230

40' Plug Door Box Car
Delaware & Hudson
No. 3224

40' Plug Door Box Car
Detroit Toledo & Ironton
No. 3210

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40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Frisco (Blue)
No. 3207

This interesting light blue Train-Miniature 40-foot plug door appears to have a very non-standard, non-prototypical scheme for a Frisco box car.  Research suggests Train-Miniature wasn't terribly far off the mark on this release.  Frisco did have a series of blue plug doors (#15500-15574) leased from Chicago Freight Car in 1969.  The cars worked in General Foods pool service assignment out of Memphis, Tennessee.  The prototype is actually a 50-foot car that lacked running boards.  You'll find the prototype pictured, plus many more Frisco cars in Morning Sun Books' "Frisco/Katy Color Guide to Freight Equipment" by Nick Molo.

40' Plug Door Box Car
Frisco (Tan) 
No. 3219

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Grand Trunk Western 
No. 3209

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Green Bay & Western 
No. 3201

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40' Plug Door Box Car
Louisville New Albany & Corydon
No. 3212

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Maine Central
No. 3223

40' Plug Door Box Car
Milwaukee Road
No. 3211

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
New Haven
No. 3220

40' Plug Door Box Car
Norfolk & Western 
No.3204

40' Plug Door Box Car
Pennsylvania
No.3217

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40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Pickens 
No. 3222

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Ralston Purina Co.
No. 3228

40' Plug Door Box Car
Rock Island (The Rock) 
No.3214

40' Plug Door Box Car
Santa Fe 
No.3202

40' Plug Door Box Car
Soo Line 
No. 3216

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Southern
No. 3203

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Superior Foundry Products
No. 3225

40' Plug Door Box Car
Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks 
No.3206

40' Plug Door Box Car
Union Pacific 
No.3208

40-foot Plug Door Box Car
Undecorated
No. 3200

This detail view of the side of the N&W example shows the typical level of quality for pad printing of the 1970s.  Note the somewhat smudgy edges and the coverage problem over the seams of the car in the "NW" markings.