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| (...) Box cars have come in many lengths-- the quintessential box car from around the turn of the century was 40'. Many newer ones are 50'. Some box cars don't even look to scale next to others! So, prototypically speaking, just about any size (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) the (...) even (...) size (...) There is an upper limit on length somewhere in the 80-100 foot range, and there is an upper limit on height as well. Of course width is the most tighly constrained. HiCubes (what the B&O boxcar Paul is referring (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The enclosed car carriers, Autoracks, are about 90' long, and they dwarf the signle door box cars on the trains that I see. I know...you are talking about box cars, but I had nothing to say about box cars that had not alread been said... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| A "full length" High Cube Box Car is 86 feet long. That's what I was going for with mine, but it was too long to negotiate the curves, so I shortened it considerably. High Cubes came in many lengths from 40 feet to 60 feet to 86 feet. "John Neal" (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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