The Supply Car Seaboard Air Line (SAL) General Service Flat Cars

The Supply Car

Chad Boas

general service

1940

53'6"

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CBQ)

FM14

CBQ had a fishbelly center sill, but straight side sills. Two years later, in 1942, AAR standardized on both being fishbelly sills.

S

50

resin kit

unpainted

not included

not included

not included

Instruction Sheets

The back story on these specific models, and it unclear how many more exist, was that Bob McCarthy acquired the patterns from Chad Boas for this car. Bob Hogan was helping Bob McCarthy at the time and wound up with two of these kits in his possession. The kit consisted of just the body casting and the wooden deck produced by Lake Junction Models; everything else the modeler had to acquire from then-Grandt Lines (part numbers were indicated in the one-page instruction sheet that accompanied the kit). The car never made it to full production due to Bob's passing. Jim King, of Smoky Mountain Model Works, acquired the patterns from Bob McCarthy somehow, and refined it and eventually released the kit under his own company name.

The Supply Car

8001

Chad Boas

general service

53'6"

Seaboard Air Line (SAL)

F-6

S

50

resin kit

unpainted

not included

not included

not included

Instruction Sheets

Jim King, of Smoky Mountain Model Works, bought the patterns from Chad Boas after The Supply Car's owner, Bob McCarthy, passed away. The wooden deck included in the kit was produced by Lake Junction Models.