In 1959 Pacific Car & Foundry (PC&F) worked with Southern Pacific to design and develop a new series of cars, Insulated Boxcars or RBLs. They started with centered 9-foot doored cars in a Plate B clearance for the canned and food stuffs trade that was needed on a majority of SP and it's subsidiary SSW's service areas. As the design developed over 3 years, in late 1962 a 10-foot offset doored design was designed, which is the subject of this model.

The entire upper body of the boxcar was riveted together from the bottom sill up, in the 6+5 R pattern. Whereas the underframe was fully welded. These were insulated, had proven 20-inch cushioned underframes,  usually Hydra-Cushion cushioning devices. Many types and configurations and combinations of loaders were used as per customer specifications, but these specifically had Moveable Bulkheads, or DF-B loaders.

DRGW
These cars were leased by the Rio Grande from North American Car and a couple lasted until about 1980. Like other fully leased NACC cars they received a reefer orange, not Aspen Gold or Grande Orange. The graphics speaks to a steam era with the serif lettering and flying Rio Grande but placed on a modern Cadillac boxcar. We love the cool NITX logo!

C&IM
Another one of those classic schemes of steam era inspired graphics juxtaposed with Bold graphics of the NEW image C&IM. If you had to have one C&IM boxcar in your collection this is it. Look at that subtle location change in the assignment stencil. We love the quirky Ys on the end lettering!

Hubinger
You'll notice that it might seem that the two Hubinger cars are the same, but on closer inspection they are very different. Different graphics on the doors, ends and sides, placement of lettering is different in all locations subtle and not so subtle. Even positions are different on opposite sides for one of them. Great care has been taken to research and design them that way with the attention to those details by our factory is second to none. The models speak for themselves. Isn't it neat for both of them to be repainted and still have a NEW 11-62 date!

SP
We've really done our homework on these with some expert help. A big NOTE for the SP and SSW, whilst doing the research we realized that there were TWO versions of the red paint, subtly different, the repainted cars were brighter. Sacramento had several repaint and upgrade dates, these reflect the two more common years of 1974 and 1976. The main focus for Sacramento was to obviously replace parts or repair damaged cars, but also to upgrade the manual slack adjustor to an Automatic one for the brake systems. Along with that is remounting the end Retaining Valve to the sides with large shields and to cut down ladders after removing the roofwalks. SP and SSW were one of the few railroads that actually cut-down all ladders and lowered their handbrakes. An internal change to these cars was to replace the Evans DF-B loaders to Equipco LD Bulkheads, this is noted with the change of graphic in the Ball and Wing logo. For Fragile Freight was also dropped with this scheme. See our first run cars and compare.

SSW
We were hard pressed to find many SSW repaints in the early '70s until Pete Arnold came to the rescue with a 1974 rebuild/repaint from Pine Bluffs shop on the Cotton Belt. Pretty much the same upgrade programme was done at this location as with Sacramento, however the Evans DF-B Bulkheads were retained. Note that the 1974 repaint as an assignment yellow block with a return to the CRIP RR Dallas. The 1977 repaints were more typical for Pine Bluff so we included a good three cars with those. At this point thou the system class added the -R for rebuilds, so these had the B-70-10-R class applied. Pine Bluff also felt the need to come up with a new graphic font for the HYDRA-CUSHION, not sure why but hey we love it!

Design features faithfully rendered in the assembled car

• Overhanging Stanray roof or Pullman-Standard roof with CORRECT Roofwalk and crossover platform types for each roadname
• Perfect to prototype PCF versions of Stanray R3-4 riveted ends, with separate roofwalk end bracket
• Usual lettering differences per car number apply where they occur
• NEW car sides PCFsignature rivetted, with PCF style ladders, with specific prototype door stops, door gussets and sill design
• Accurate Moloco's cushioned draft gear coupler boxes
• Specific cushioning devices and associated underframe layout and details dependent on roadname, including another first for moloco, Delivery as well as Rebuild style underframes
• NEW MOLOCO 70t Roller Bearing trucks, Ride-Control, Barber or National style trucks matching protoype applications
• Rubber airhoses the first in the industry by Moloco