In the 40's and 50's did the railroads run cars that were close to the scale size of this car or is this more of a size that would have been run in later years?
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I found this.
During the 20th century the car continued to grow reaching 40 to 50 feet in length and 10 feet wide. This became the standard until the post-World War II period when specialization and other factors led to the car's size growing to 85 feet or more allowing it to handle truck trailers.
So they should be scale.
