B2 40' 12 panel box car, Big Sky Blue HO scale

HO scale, with trucks and magnetic couplers. Six car numbers available. These models of Great Northern 12 panel, 40’ 6” inside length box cars by InterMountain are numbered in series 10900 to 11874. This lot, built in 1948, was 10’ Inside Height and provided 3715 cubic feet of space. When built, these cars were painted mineral red. When production of the 12 panel box cars ended in 1951, the 3,975 cars of this design were 19% of the box car roster. Most of them lasted to and beyond the BN merger. If you are modeling 1950-1970, you should have a significant number of these cars in your fleet. The models are correctly painted Big Sky Blue color with a large Rocky herald to the right of the door, a paint scheme applied from May of 1967 to 1970. They correctly have no running board. This paint scheme is available in six different car numbers. Actual cars were 10’ IH, models are incorrectly stenciled 10-2 IH. See GNRHS Reference Sheet 61 and Modelers’ Pages 97 and 98.    SHORT HISTORY OF GN