Lionel has a new Bangor&Aroostook 40' ARA steel boxcar ( # 2442261) which is the typical boxcar brown with green doors and ends. It is a nice looking car. Are there any BAR experts out there who know whether the car color is based on a real prototype? Thanks in advance-P Hering, Lombard, IL ( turtle 7)
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No they never did.
Gunny-Thanks! As a child in the 1950s I spent much time in Maine 40 some miles north of Millinocket-house was on the east branch of the Penobscot just ( about 50 yards) south of the BAR bridge crossing the river. The trains crossing that bridge were easy to see looking out from our window . In the fall there were lots of potato reefers/insulated cars coming south from Aroostook county and always lots of pulp wood cars going south to the paper mills in Millinocket and oil tank cars going north to Ft Kent/Houlton/Caribou/etc. I cannot remember seeing a box car like that new Lionel one. Perhaps they could do another color car with that neat water/mountain/tree emblem! Thanks again-turtle7 ( P Hering--Lombard, IL)
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The Bangor & Aroostook never had those green doors and ends on their cars. Bangor & Aroostook are very rarely made in O scale, with the exception of State of Maine cars. Poor design by Lionel.
Johan
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