Yoder ACL Ventilated 36' box car - beautiful!

Another Yoder masterpiece.  Nice car Ed!

Great looking car and love that ACL. Are the cars on either end scale cars also? Why is the ACL car so much smaller? Thanks!

super!  i have one coming as well.  looking forward to it. thanks for pics.

It is!

Very nice, enjoy your new purchase.

All 3 cars are scale cars. The ACL car is a 36' car and of shorter inside height than the other boxcars that surround it.  Probably due to the fact that watermelons are heavy. 

 

As always, nice picture Ed and beautiful cars.    There are very few unsold so buy now or cry later!!! 

In line with the other thread running about the middle class and o gauge trains...how much is Mr. Yoder charging for this particular masterpiece?  I can't find it on the website.

 

Thanks...love the ACL!

 

Close but no cigar Martin!!!   He said prices were not listed on the web site and they are not.  I pre-ordered mine so I don't know what the current price is.  Figure $350 range. 

 

Thanks...at least,  it was not just me who couldn't find it...somehow that makes me feel better.

 

Take care!

Yes, and there's a Tab to the left - "Contact Us".  To get accurate information one generally goes to the primary source.  Perhaps I should have painted an arrow on a screenshot to be clearer.

 

Thanks for confirming that one can lead a horse to water but not make him drink remains a true axiom.

Yoder's painted cars are pricy compared with mass produced plastic ones - but when you consider the hours that goes into creating one the price is reasonable.   With the kids out of the nest I am fortunate to be able to consider purchase of special cars like the Yoder ventilated box car once in awhile. They add diversity to a roster comprised of a large number of nicely detailed mass produced models (like the IM 37 AAR box car to the right of it in the first photo) that weren't even available when I converted to O scale 45 years ago.  My next brass purchase will likely be a Yoder Mather car. 

 

Ed Rappe

or just answer his question....

Joe

I honestly don't know what Rich is offering the few remaining cars for so I didn't want to quote the price I paid (I put down a deposit a year ago).  I'd expect the price to be around  $400.

 

Ed Rappe

thanks Ed! At least you didn't call me a horse or part of one.

I'm usually referred to as the back half of the horse...

 

Anyway, Rich is at OSW...  AND I usually try to provide at least some help as opposed to childish comments about doing a Google search that seem to stem out of just about any request for information folks make on a discussion forum.

 

I love my 3 Yoder ACL cars, I wished I had the coinage for 2 more.   I always get my deposits in early with Rich's stuff since they are sweet cars.   He really picks winners.

I've been interested in ACL ventilated box cars since seeing dozens of them on sidings near Sanford FL back in the mid 50's.  For those looking for a lower cost alternative to the Yoder car you might try hunting for a wood  1950's/60's kit by Zimmer (later by All Nation).  Below is a photo of a built up car I purchased from a friend several years ago, and sold on eBay to make way for the Yoder car.  While the detail is not up to brass model standards, the wood sides don't look too bad.  The pictures reminds me that weathering the Yoder car must be a priority.

 

In the run up to hosting the 2004 O Scale National Convention contact was made with several companies regarding a ventilated box car convention car - no takers.  We did get Red Caboose to do FGEX wood reefers and AtlasO WM covered hoppers and RF&P USRA box cars. 

 

Ed Rappe

 

Have a few of those AN cars, Ed, as well as some that are my scratchbuilds...

 

Martin

 

Nice work Martin - I particularly like the job you did on the yellow one - looks sharp.  I bought the built up AN car from Brian, who I believe picked it up in an estate around 15 years ago along with a good number of virgin AN kits.

 

It's been said many times on these  forums - what goes around comes around in O scale 2 rail.  Our minority scale generally isn't well suited for someone looking for instant gratification.  However if you are patient eventually if it's been previously made it will show up on eBay, or on tables at O scale 2 rail shows like the O Scale National, O Scale West, Chicago Midwest, Strasburg, and Cherry Valley.  I rarely go home empty handed and always with a smile on my face....  

 

Ed Rappe

Mullet River Model Works made a kit for the Atlantic Coast Line ventilated box car a few years ago.  It's a craftsman kit, takes some time and patience but builds into a very respectable model.  There is a review of the kit with photos of the assembled model in the Mar/Apr 2011 issue of O Scale Trains.  List price is $125.

Jeff MacDonald's hand built wood Mullet River kit.

Erik, Can you post these pictures to the ventilated box car discussion on the forum. I think they would enjoy the pictures of a Mullet River car. Nothing beats real wood for a wood car. 
You have to show me how to post pictures!!  jeff

Agree - wood looks best!  The Mullet River brass and wood car beats the all brass model - especially when built and painted by a master craftsman.

Eric and Jeff thanks for sharing.

 

Ed Rappe

That's a work of art.

-Greg

Well, yes! 

Well done boxcar.

Erik:

 

Thanks for posting the pictures.  Very well built model. 

Those are sweet Martin.  Wood DOES "finish" up nicely. 

 

That era of railroading has some of the neatest wood equipment and structures.

 

And that makes it a challenge to finish those brass cars to look like wood. 

I agree that weathering makes things look more realistic. There must be some cars that were built near the time of your RR operations (paint still fresh?). I hope this is one because it looks too good as it sits! Can't you just grease up the trucks?

It seems like I read somewhere that these cars were sometime used for other cargoes in the off season.  I believe that the article specifically mentioned hay.  Does anyone have more information regarding other loads?

Wes, I have heard that ties and coke were loaded in cars.

Wes,

Here's a somewhat earlier FEC car in 1917 that looks to have a lumber load being had loaded/unloaded in DC.  Might note that the ventilated door on this specific car is louvered not unlike a larger set of shutters.

 

Here is a builders photo of that same FEC 6000-6499 car series.  Would it be possible to get a copy of your photo?

 

Also looking for photos of FEC 15001-15100 Stock Cars (In service 1917-1934). 

Just re-visited this to find the photo you posted - very interesting and unique looking door arrangement!

 

I'd send you a copy of the photo I posted, but I don't see an e-mail address in your profile and the photo I have is also just under 10 meg bmp file.

my email is calwinter@aol.com

I remember one of these cars in Hialeah, Florida's Seaboard yard stenciled "trash service only". This was back in the mid 60's!