I was wondering when double door box car shipping of complete new cars ended? Probably gradually giving over
to open carriers........ (I am aware of dealers taking teams to factories once and driving new car to their sales
rooms) I once fantasized putting an auto plant on my layout, actually a truck plant, that built larger, low production
trucks like Federals or Diamond T's, but a small independent brand as the many that once existed. I visualized a subsidiary of it that built and refurbished cabooses (giving me an excuse to have a yard full of them). Space has
eliminated said plant and subsidiary as likely, along with the central post office with a yard full of RPO cars also on my wish list.
Vegas, complete and finished, I think, but maybe not, were the last cars I heard of being shipped in boxcars.
I think I have seen pictures showing delivery by open tractor/trailor car carriers earlier than I would have guessed,
maybe by the early 1930's?
I was thinking I'd need a small fleet of custom lettered double door box cars, but not unless the truck plant materializes.
