ExactRail Platinum HO Scale Berwick 7580 Appliance Boxcar, CSX Transportation/SBD

It may look like it’s built for carrying auto parts, but these large 70-ton, 60' high-cube boxcars are for moving appliances. Initially the kind that paired nicely with dark walnut veneer cabinets, orange formica and freshly raked shag carpet. The cars were built and delivered between 1976 & 1977 by the Berwick Forge and Fabricating Corporation in the former AC&F Berwick, Pennsylvania plant. 

Initially delivered to the Louisville & Nashville, Rock Island and Missouri Pacific railroads, many of these cars found themselves wearing multiple different paint schemes during their lifetime. Many of the L&N cars would be painted into Seaboard and later CSX colors, but many never were and lived on in their former glory. The former Rock Island cars found themselves on the Southern and were given what was called the “Europa” paint scheme. The few MP cars that have lasted up to today on the Union Pacific can still be seen roaming the rails in their as-delivered paint.